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Meanings of egoistic in anglès
portuguès
egocêntrico català
egoista Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs.
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Examples for "egotistic"
Examples for "egotistic"
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I believe country-people are even more egotistic than the dwellers in cities.
2
They accuse England of perpetuating for egotistic ends the state of anarchy.
3
Though corrupt and egotistic, that aristocracy was, in some instances, singularly impartial.
4
The male indifference to death seemed stupid, egotistic and criminal to her.
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But if they could reform their egotistic attitudes, they could change their destiny.
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It has also turned out a fair number of self-centered, egocentric horrors.
2
You both look like a right pair of egocentric tools, the person added.
3
Notwithstanding her known social characteristics, there were very few egocentric or subjective reactions.
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She was the most egocentric human being he had ever met.
5
There is room for controversial, for outrageous, but not for egocentric.
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The selfish and egoistical life breeds always the vapid and vacuous heart.
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With the parcelling out of wealth we have become much more egoistical.
3
I have been so egoistical I thought I was doing them myself.
4
We must change our egoistical thinking, and as Ann Grim says, we will survive.
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Possession, achievement, and the like do not arouse appreciation, but rather an egoistical emotion.
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He could not be moved from his base; he was self-centred, immovable.
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It is the moral atmosphere of a life self-centred, self-reliant, and self-controlled.
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The Nemesis of this self-centred spirit is that of being totally ineffectual.
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Every imperfect soul is self-centred and thinketh only of his own good.
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This was New Silverstrand, a town of red brick, self-centred and prosperous.
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He could not be moved from his base; he was self-centered, immovable.
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Men are self-centered, soft-centered creatures, armored in loud words and harsh deeds.
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He was too self-centered to appreciate what Paul Simon had given him.
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He was the most self-centered creature Sirius knew-apartfrom Duffie, of course.
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We have to empty our self-centered thoughts and learn to let go!
Usage of egoistic in anglès
1
The doctrine of the English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is as unequivocally egoistic.
2
Rather, it is Wilde the egoistic,-æstheticphilosopher, and Wilde the imaginative artist.
3
He gets out of training, and concentrates upon egoistic or erotic broodings.
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It gives joy and takes away weird pressure from the egoistic mind.
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There is nothing we are more egoistic about-noteven children-thanabout cats.
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He felt an egoistic aversion to the joyless sons of man.
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Such an egoistic conception is quite foreign to our longitudinal antipodes.
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Rhoda was the delicate product of a highly cultivated civilization, egoistic, narrow-viewed, self-centered.
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One cannot conceive of the grandly egoistic poet saying this.
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The egoistic tendencies are only a part of human nature.
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But he himself was more egoistic than the whole universe.
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All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.
13
I have cited some utterances which sound egoistic, and such citations might be multiplied.
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By such devices we seek to bring infinite existence within our finite egoistic grasp.
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She was not greedy, nor patriotic, neither vain nor humble, neither egoistic nor unselfish.
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Given an egoistic consciousness, how can action which has regard for others take place?
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