egoistic

Example Sentences

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He said that taking his campaign to Oli's door was not "an egoistic decision", but was designed to create wider impact.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

What we can do—what many of us try to do over the course of our lives—is find our own unique hill on which we occupy the top and take our egoistic satisfaction that way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

“I can’t understand. I can’t accept this very strange and very egoistic game of Viktor Orban.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024

We're of service to something greater than ourselves and our own selfish, egoistic needs.

From Salon • May 26, 2023

To assume that egoistic pleasures may be relinquished to any extent is to fall into one of those many errors of ethical speculation which result from ignoring the laws of biology....

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.