egoist

Example Sentences

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Having killed off the kernel of sweetness at the heart of the young man who’d written “Goodbye, Columbus,” he was free to explore the writer not just as egoist, but as stag-on-the-make, as bachelor-king.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2021

Howard Jacobson’s novella “Pussy,” to be published in Britain in April, is a fairy tale about an egoist from a golden city who falls into a leadership position.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2017

A nervous flier but a bigger egoist, Ali once refused to buckle up when a flight attendant asked him to do so moments before take-off.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2016

The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.   

From Forbes • Sep. 22, 2014

It would be interesting to know what an egoist like Basine thought about things.

From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben