egoist
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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
Unlike her two front-of-stage colleagues, McVie isn’t an apparent eccentric or egoist, but rather an understated craftsperson of plaintive easy listening and English soul.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2014
The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.
From Forbes ● Sep. 22, 2014
I felt sorry for Nigel, as I feel sorry for any successful egoist in the toils of anticipated ridicule.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
This demand gives the lie to a common misconception of liberalism, namely, that it is an ethic of insouciant self-indulgence, a politics for blithe egoists.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
Finally, the game must be the undisputed king, and all the egoists and agitators would do well to fall in line.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
“Austria cannot afford any egoists right now,” he said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
It is arduous even pretending to be interested in self-absorbed egoists.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2018
He saw among mankind only sophists and philosophers, where we see predatory egoists and their starved and stunted victims.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford
