Meaning of entitledness | Babel Free

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The quality of feeling entitled, convinced of one's own deservingness or superiority, and of shifting blame and responsibility to others; demandingness; pretense.

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“Particularly striking is the fact that almost all (97 X) Labor fund P.C.P.s blame⟳ the system for creating a sense⟳ of entitledness — a trend evidently conforming with the Labor fund members' greater likelihood to attribute the responsibility for their health to the fund and the physician (cf. pp.42-48).”

““Shut⟳ up,” she said. “Just shut⟳ up, Victor. We're all going through a hard time, and I'm getting a little damned tired of your entitledness. If Monsieur de Saint—Pierre says that Albert wrote it, then I am prepared to accept⟳ that. I suggest⟳ that you either do the same, or leave⟳.””

“The attitude of the beloved is never one of merit or entitledness: "I had this coming," but precisely the opposite: "I don't deserve⟳ this." As the poets are well aware, the beloved never feels worthy of the advances of the lover.”

“Figure⟳ 11.1 pictures this process⟳ of perceived need⟳ gradually deteriorating into outright 'Pay⟳ Me!' Aid officials the world over have⟳ in the past reported that a sustained flow⟳ of aid eventually results in a culture of 'entitledness' (Gergen and Gergen, 1971).”

““It's okay for me to be here, isn't it?” he asked, as though there could be no reason⟳ why he should be asked to leave⟳. He went on eating, and I couldn't help⟳, in the midst of the discomfort I knew I should be feeling—and did feel⟳, though only a little—a faint amusement at his entitledness. It had never been a problem for him at Winerip, not from the beginning: the parties and the Boston caterers and the good poured champagne.”

“All the boys seemed to be working hard to affect⟳ the louche attitude, the “Under My Thumb” air of sexual entitledness, the thatchy, unkempt hair of a young Mick Jagger.”

“[…] constant focus⟳ on his self-image, his notion of being special (set⟳ apart from others and superior to them), and the associated insistence that ordinary rules of reality did not pertain to him. At times, there was a hostile entitledness about him.”

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