Thesaurus / egotistic
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
He was therefore prompt and decided in checking the egotistic garrulity of valetudinarians.
A BOOK ABOUT DOCTORSJOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON
If she was egotistic about her tiny learning, they were at least as much so regarding theirs.
MAIN STREETSINCLAIR LEWIS
Do not desecrate this room by your cold and egotistic thoughts, and by your heartless calculations!
LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMESLOUISE MUHLBACH
The master was apt to be egotistic—dogmatic—much given to repetition—very diffuse.
THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF LONDONJ. EWING RITCHIE
That had been well enough for the earlier time, though about this, as about his other affairs, Ralph had never been egotistic.
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADYHENRY JAMES
Our temptation is to be egotistic and self-centred; to want to approach God alone with our private needs and wishes.
OUR LADY SAINT MARYJ. G. H. BARRY
Her rigid principles, her petty, egotistic pride, her faultless demeanour jarred on the audience.
THE LOWEST RUNGMARY CHOLMONDELEY
I should rather be offering consolation to your sorrows than be wasting my feelings in egotistic complaints.
LETTERS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, VOL. I (OF 2)SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
And besides, he was by nature very crafty, revengeful and egotistic.
EDITH AND JOHNFRANKLIN S. FARQUHAR
The movements of exaltation which belong to genius are egotistic by their very nature.
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLEOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
WORDS RELATED TO EGOTISTIC
- boastful
- chichi
- classy
- conspicuous
- crass
- dashing
- egotistic
- exhibitionistic
- extravagant
- flamboyant
- flatulent
- fussy
- garish
- gaudy
- gay
- glittery
- grandiose
- highfaluting
- jaunty
- loud
- obtrusive
- peacocky
- pompous
- pretentious
- spectacular
- splashy
- splurgy
- sporty
- swank
- swanky
- theatrical
- tinsel
- tony
- uptown
- vain
- vulgar
- ascendant
- autocratic
- bossy
- cavalier
- cocky
- despotic
- dictatorial
- disdainful
- dogmatic
- egotistic
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- imperative
- imperial
- imperious
- insolent
- magisterial
- officious
- oppressive
- overweening
- paramount
- peremptory
- predominant
- preponderant
- prevalent
- proud
- regnant
- sniffy
- snotty
- sovereign
- stuffy
- supercilious
- superior
- tyrannical
- uppity
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