egoistic

Example Sentences

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She hones in on their egoistic needs with catlike reflexes, learning the routes and paths through which both may be influenced for her own purposes.

From Los Angeles Times

Magyar suggested reading the definition backward to better understand it: "The egoistic voter who wants to disregard other people and help solely himself can express this in a collective more easily than alone."

From Salon

It is not some kind of egoistic solipsism that would countenance deliberately coughing on someone, as she suggests.

From Los Angeles Times

On the face of it, two British indie bands being locked in a war of words about class-consciousness might seem like egoistic farce.

From The Guardian

No wonder people display so many defenses when confronted with the awareness of their mortality and why, when we feel most unsafe and uncertain, we tend to shift our focus to more immediate, egoistic concerns.

From Scientific American