To be increasingly annoyed at people saying " entitled"

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It's as if the word has only just been mined from some other civilisation. Every other thread involves someone mentioning it.

It's a bit like when people used to do that irritating Australian thing of making every statement sound like a question.

GRRRRR!

Ah didnt you know? Entitled is the new disengenuous.

I think once you notice a word. You see it everywhere. And others start using it a lot too.

Yes, it is fucking annoying. Especially as people seem to use it when they're talking about something someone actually is entitled to in international human rights legislation (health care, education, a job, a home, etc etc) as though it was some great huge favour the person was asking.

I've got to admit, I hate this one too. What's wrong with "spoilt"?

Oh what's that other bloody one that crazes me. Reverse snobbery? Inverse snobbery?

God yes, fudge what they actually mean is "a sense of entitlement". "Entitled" means you deserve the thing you are asking for! Grrrr.

what about rude and grabby? most posts with 'entitled' in them also manage to shoehorn rude and grabby in too.

rude is very overused on mn. as for grabby - I have never heard it used in rl thankfully.

YADNBU!!!! I loathe the word entitled! It made me cringe in the sense of people being 'entitled' to want their children to travel safely on a bus, of course instead they should get an extra 8 arms surgically attached so they can fold up a pushchair whilst holding at least one child, handbag, shopping bags etc.

I hate it even when it is appropriate to use it! I don't like threads about gifts, no one should ever expect a gift but it's still a horrible embarrassing word!

Everyone has words they hate though right?

Oh it's not as bad as 'toxic'.

No-one's MIL is a bit annoying any more...they're all bloody toxic.

Oh good. I have always wanted to say 'you know you're misusing that adjective?' But never have until now. Thanks!

yy.

"This place is full of astonishingly rude people with a misplaced sense of entitlement compared to the people in Asda who actually have far better manners"

DH is fond of saying this at the Waitrose checkouts.

All these people with a sense of entitlement to things they are entitled to.

Makes me sick.