George Costanza

noun

A person who complains frequently and is socially inappropriate, opinionated and selfish.

Meanings

nounGeorge Costanza (plural George Costanzas)

plural George Costanzas

  1. A person who complains frequently and is socially inappropriate, opinionated and selfish.

    Sean Macauley set the tone, describing me as "the George Costanza of weddings".

    2008, Toby Young, The Sound of No Hands Clapping, Grand Central Publishing
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    He is the George Costanza of the Pima County Sheriff's Office. He was always around, he was always complaining, he had an opinion about everything, but he would never contribute anything constructive to any situation he was involved in.

    2009, Leighton Rockafellow, Immaculate Deception, Wheatmark, page 38

    I was the George Costanza of children, pushing myself through bodies to get to the head of the table, where I would stand, my eyes barely peering over the edge, waiting for the moment, the signal, that we could start eating.

    2022, Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family, Little, Brown

Origin

From the character George Costanza of the television show Seinfeld.

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