egoisms
Example Sentences
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"Let us eradicate the prevailing mentality revolving around our ego and personal and national egoisms which determine every decision we take," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2021
But where, if not from Mrs. Hilary, did Nan get her black fits of melancholy, her erratic irresponsible gaieties, her passionate angers, her sharp jealousies and egoisms?
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
Yet the two egoisms reared against each other, seemed to him—could he have put the thought into shape—like combatants with lances drawn ready to strike.
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed
Such men—I never have known it to fail—are full of petty vanities and egoisms and contemptible weaknesses, the like of which Estenega could not be capable of.
From The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
You are a charm in the Indian summer of my sweet and pure friendships, without egoisms, and without deceptions in consequence.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by Aimée G. Leffingwel McKenzie
