egoist

Example Sentences

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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

While Mr. Thomas’s Timon thinks nothing of hurling his own excrement at one of his unwanted supplicants, beneath the repellent exterior can still be glimpsed the bruised egoist of the first acts.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011

I’ll tell you calmly, then: uncle is a bribe-taker and a heartless egoist.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham