egoistic
adjective
pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
egoistical
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a variation of
egoistic.
Example Sentences
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What also appealed to the Komische is that Gaffigan, ambitious but far from egoistical, actually seems to practice what so many of his colleagues preach about a consciously collaborative style.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
Wilson, played by Sean Penn, is shown as quick-tempered, voluble, egoistical.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2011
And it was just because Boston preached so often in that egoistical way that the people of Ettrick were able to give such a good account of what they heard.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte
These little incidents, trifling as they appeared, afforded me an excellent proof of the absurdity of false modesty: which induces men, from the egoistical fear of being thought vain, to conceal or disguise the truth.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft
Was her reticence about her own affairs as inviolable as it had often been convenient for rather an egoistical young man to think it?
From Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
