egotism
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Mr. Chabal has compiled a psychological study in coldheartedness and melodramatic egotism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Yet a viewer isn’t left with the sense that Reubens did that out of greed or egotism.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
Navalny was a social-media phenomenon, a charismatic speaker with some of the egotism of a natural-born leader.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
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
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vocabulary lists containing egotism
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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