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egoist

[ee-goh-ist, eg-oh-] / ˈi goʊ ɪst, ˈɛg oʊ- /


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In Season 1, Jamie was introduced as a loud-mouthed egoist with an affinity for flamboyant clothing, often acting as an antagonist for Brett Goldstein’s often angry, introverted Roy Kent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2022

Howard Jacobson’s novella “Pussy,” to be published in Britain in April, is a fairy tale about an egoist from a golden city who falls into a leadership position.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2017

The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.   

From Forbes • Sep. 22, 2014

England egoist" who was "snuffed out by a French cook.

From The Guardian • May 14, 2010

Systematically to ignore these relations, then, is to act as if I were an egoist in the extremest sense, and held that there was no consciousness in the world except my own.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.




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