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

From this crude statement of a signal fact, the thoughtless reader will at once judge me rapacious, egoistical, false, fawning, mendacious.

From Confessions of a Young Man by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Of the several tendencies mentioned, the humanitarian tendency, egoistical at the South, detaching the individual from the race and socialistic at the North, absorbing the individual in the race, is the most dangerous.

From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Brownson, Orestes Augustus

London is egoistical, and the world for her ends with the four-mile cab radius.

From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard