egoistic

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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

She was regarded as aloof and egoistic, and could be contemptuous of actors she found lacking in commitment, bellicose in rehearsal rooms and unafraid of challenging eminent directors.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2023

From an infinite horizon he withdraws into himself, back into the small egoistic circle, where he must become dry and withered: he may possibly attain to cleverness, but never to wisdom.

From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm