"feeling entitled" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to refer to someone feeling that they are owed something they have not actually earned. For example: "She left the job without giving notice, feeling entitled to her severance pay."
That means that if we don't teach kids gratitude and practice it with them, they grow up feeling entitled, and entitlement does not lead to happiness.
Recent research further suggests that employees who feel pressured to engage in citizenship may start feeling entitled to act out by engaging in deviant behaviors.
Most of us are actually born feeling entitled to our parents' care.
You can't blame her for feeling entitled to the same privileges as her rent-free sibling.
That kind of underlying assumption, Steele writes, inevitably leads blacks toward feeling "entitled to irresponsibility".
What did his mother teach him all those years ago about feeling entitled to his place?
Thus, when such critics lose the constitutional argument, they find themselves in the awkward position of not feeling entitled to directly criticize the religious view in question.
Addicted, as we are, to comfort, utterly intolerant of boredom and feeling entitled to traipse about the globe, we have all but killed off the adventurer-memoirist.
He was, in effect, in purgatory, with the Mets convinced that his 2012 season had left him feeling entitled and less than dedicated.
Instead, notice your children's strengths for example, the fact that they were delighted by a gift rather than feeling entitled to it.
So in terms of their work ethic, or feeling entitled or spoiled, another thing that we observed was the change in how many hours people expect to work.
