ENTITLED

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I do not get this insult at all. It makes no sense ' 'soo entitled' ' how very entitled you are'
Just the words 'very entitled' do not roll of the tongue like a good insult should and by definition of the word it makes little to no sense

Am I missing something key here? Or this just a MN trend?

This is not an AIBU I posted here because this is where I see the word entitled being thrown around the most.

It's a word I use a lot outside of this site because it's a big issue where I work. I work in a pub, and our local arseholes regular customers have a massive sense of entitlement. Hanging back after hours taking ages to finish drinks even though they know we have cleaning to do and have already stopped being paid.

And if we dare refuse them because they can't stand, or try and chase them out at the end of the night we get the 'I've been drinking here for 30 years!' Rant.

It's definitely used to mean "in possession of a misplaced sense of entitlement" so "entitled" on its own doesn't really make sense grammatically but at this stage it is just shorthand, as loads of people have said. I first noticed it on American blogs like Jezebel a few years ago, and I thought it was an American thing (the use of dubious shorthand, not the entitlement) but now it's spread. People there were really keen on pointing out entitled behaviour and urging everyone to "check their privilege" constantly.

I use precious on here and in real life. It's a perfectly good word.