egotisms
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He warned against "egotisms" from prominent bench-warmers like Arjen Robben and Mario Gómez.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2013
They are miserable little egotisms, like all the other little humans, fluttering their May-fly life-dance of an hour.
From John Barleycorn by London, Jack
But it is so in England, and the fact illustrates the strong hold these absurd and uncomfortable egotisms have upon the British mind.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various
His egotisms are innocent, but they are absorbing.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.
She always acted on her own aphorism, "To bear faults, to manage egotisms, is an aim perhaps best accomplished by a skilful dissimulation; but the true ideal is to correct faults and to cure self-love."
From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville