egoistical

Example Sentences

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What also appealed to the Komische is that Gaffigan, ambitious but far from egoistical, actually seems to practice what so many of his colleagues preach about a consciously collaborative style.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022

Wilson, played by Sean Penn, is shown as quick-tempered, voluble, egoistical.

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2011

Let me, therefore, crown Baedeker with an essayist’s parsley, or an academic laurel, ere I too become selfish, forgetful, egoistical, and famous.

From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert

It is of just as little use to claim that past master of sociology, Herbert Spencer, in support of Stirner's views, because Spencer too recognises the purely egoistical origin of law and of social organisation.

From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Zenker, Ernst Viktor

Possession, achievement, and the like do not arouse appreciation, but rather an egoistical emotion.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton