egoistical

Example Sentences

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What also appealed to the Komische is that Gaffigan, ambitious but far from egoistical, actually seems to practice what so many of his colleagues preach about a consciously collaborative style.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022

Wilson, played by Sean Penn, is shown as quick-tempered, voluble, egoistical.

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2011

He was not an unusually egoistical man, but his first thought was one of unutterable gratitude that in the moment of strong temptation his wife had held an obstinate hand on the purse-strings.

From The Native Born or, the Rajah's People by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)

The selfish and egoistical life breeds always the vapid and vacuous heart.

From Hints for Lovers by Haultain, T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold)

If love is egoistical then I am rampant this moment with egoism.

From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn