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

These little incidents, trifling as they appeared, afforded me an excellent proof of the absurdity of false modesty: which induces men, from the egoistical fear of being thought vain, to conceal or disguise the truth.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

My aunt! what an egoistical letter this is.

From Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Henderson, Keith

If love is egoistical then I am rampant this moment with egoism.

From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn