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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

But perhaps even the too frequent loss of books is an evil to be preferred to the egoistical meanness of the selfish collector.

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts

He was there like an enemy, like something determined, egoistical, that said to her, "You would look at the greatness of the desert, at immensity, infinity, God!—Look at me."

From The Garden of Allah by Robert Smythe Hichens

Even those persons whom the child seems to love from the very beginning, it loves at the outset because it has need of them, cannot do without them, in others words, out of egoistical motives.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud




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