egoist

Example Sentences

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It’s egoist to want to procreate — I don’t need there to be another version of me.

From New York Times • May 3, 2021

Having killed off the kernel of sweetness at the heart of the young man who’d written “Goodbye, Columbus,” he was free to explore the writer not just as egoist, but as stag-on-the-make, as bachelor-king.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2021

A nervous flier but a bigger egoist, Ali once refused to buckle up when a flight attendant asked him to do so moments before take-off.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2016

The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.   

From Forbes • Sep. 22, 2014

People think of LaFollette, the public man, as an egoist but this nursing of his son showed the utmost absence of egoism.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)