egotistically

“When I was younger, I was much more egotistically attached to concepts that would come up in my mind about how a character should be,” he said.

“Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.”

“I don’t want to egotistically imply that people would watch ‘Borat’ and not vote for Trump, but that was the aim,” Mr. Baron Cohen said after it was released, Variety reported earlier this year.”

“I don’t want to egotistically imply that people would watch ‘Borat’ and not vote for Trump, but that was the aim,” Mr. Baron Cohen told Variety.

I assumed, egotistically, that the whole thing was some weird Wohlian attempt to sting me or weave me into their next farce.