egoist
Example Sentences
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“It’s a very disparate crowd but what unites people is an angry discontent with the establishment. It’s a mix of populist and egoist outrage.”
From New York Times
Republicans he once worked with called him a giant egoist.
From Salon
“In other words, a bunch of Middle Eastern nuisances, ungrateful egoists waging tribal wars and sucking American taxpayers’ money.”
From Washington Post
Each side used age stereotypes, with varying degrees of cynicism – older women were crotchety or out of touch, younger women were egoists or spoiled children.
From The Guardian
The second is the assumption that human behaviour – of employees, customers, managers and so on – is best understood as if we are all rational egoists.
From The Guardian
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.