egotism
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Navalny was a social-media phenomenon, a charismatic speaker with some of the egotism of a natural-born leader.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2024
Wells writes that “it is part of the excessive egotism of the human animal that the bare idea of its extinction seems incredible to it.”
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023
The hauteur of his wife, Guenevere, and the egotism of her lover, Lancelot, were exposed and then exploded in torrents of rapturous balladry that swept away their faults.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2023
Clay’s neuroses and egotism plays off of Whit’s sometimes exhausting eagerness.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2023
Where other elite athletes betray their doubts about their capacities with displays of touchy egotism, Woolf was utterly insouciant.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing egotism
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Chapters 16–17
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