egotism

Example Sentences

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For the rest of us, there is a real danger from the incentives towards egotism on social media.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2025

McNeal’s ambivalence is boldly handled: Unbridled egotism is punctured with regret.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024

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