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Meanings of egotistical in English
Characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance.
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Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
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Examples for "vain"
Examples for "vain"
1
I coaxed; I threatened; I persuaded; but it was all in vain.
2
They organize in vain; they protest in vain; they appeal in vain.
3
I can say this, however: your good looks haven't made you vain.
4
Mark inquired; Lord Minchampstead inquired; great personages inquired; but all in vain.
5
Her aunt scolded in vain; in spite of the remarks of Mlle.
1
Two rescue workers had also drowned in swollen rivers today, he added.
2
The sea was swollen and billowy; it made the Nautilus rock violently.
3
Hundreds of bodies remain buried in mud or floating in swollen rivers.
4
Avoid crossing rivers and swollen streams where water is above your ankles.
5
The body is club-shape and moves with the swollen end in advance.
1
What information could that conceited ass have that could possibly help you?
2
The Chinese are too self-conceited to give in without a sound thrashing.
3
I suppose it sounds conceited, but I have unbounded confidence in myself.
4
It is the conceited fools, who feel safe, that are in danger.
5
I'm not being conceited or anything, but it just fell into place.
1
The Chinese are too self-conceited to give in without a sound thrashing.
2
The question with which Philotas puzzled the self-conceited physician was this.
3
Only, my dear sir, one is quite self-conceited enough in this imperfect state.
4
She was always an upstart, self-conceited thing; but I'm sure I pity her.
5
Fenton was neither a self-conceited person nor a blind man, groping through life.
1
Are you really swollen-headed enough to imagine that it was you who drove the French out of Russia in 1812?
Usage of egotistical in English
1
But I am running on about myself in a most egotistical style.
2
I suppose the world is just all egotistical children and broken-in people.
3
The exquisite bit from Catullus will best excuse my otherwise egotistical quotation.
4
In his gloomiest mood he is most insincere, most egotistical, most pretentious.
5
Diaz had the right to be egotistical, but he was modesty itself.
6
I feel I am talking in an excited, injudicious, egotistical, rhapsodical, manner.
7
He was too busy cursing himself inwardly for being an egotistical imbecile.
8
He brought down his hand upon his knee with an egotistical slap.
9
His poetry is egotistical too, that is, it is full of himself.
10
This was no way to write, this thin egotistical strain of complaint.
11
You see, mother, people say we are a self-centered and egotistical family.
12
Such an egotistical fellow as I am, and fond of ladies' society.
13
A man with an infirmity grows a little egotistical, if not worse.
14
See, dear, what a long egotistical letter I have written, after all.
15
What if he was vain and egotistical and vacillating, and occasionally weak?
16
One's inclined to get a bit egotistical when one's an escaped murderer.
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