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Meanings of egotistic in English
Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
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Characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance.
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Usage of egotistic in English
1
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.
5
But if they could reform their egotistic attitudes, they could change their destiny.
6
He sees that egotistic materialism has superseded the ideal aspirations of the ghetto.
7
Bitter and impious they were-asthose of egotistic men naturally are in suffering.
8
In one sense we must be egotistic, if self-knowledge is egotism.
9
The King was just an egotistic little man who liked notoriety and admiration.
10
There were, needless to say, selfless exceptions to the egotistic rule.
11
She had led, on the whole, so far, an egotistic life.
12
She had found him only a man, self-conscious, egotistic and domineering.
13
Another wretched woman has the simple egotistic mania that she has caused the duel.
14
We do not deny that there are plenty of egotistic instincts in isolated individuals.
15
His absorption in his new character was not entirely egotistic.
16
The movements of exaltation which belong to genius are egotistic by their very nature.
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