egotistical

adjective

ego·tis·ti·cal ˌē-gə-ˈti-sti-kəl

also ˌe-

variants or less commonly egotistic

ˌē-gə-ˈti-stik

also ˌe-

: characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance

an egotistical person/attitude/manner

… a man so egotistical … that he likened himself to Shakespeare, Milton and Byron …—

David Shaw

His celebrity and wealth have allowed him to indulge his whims to such an extent that the most egotistical Roman emperors, by comparison, seem models of psychological stability.—

Theodore Dalrymple

… each individual depends upon their friends to validate their own egotistical world view.—

Randall Collins

Hobson's book is a small but rare thing: a memoir that is not egotistical.—

Liesl Schillinger

… a difficult personality prompts analysts to describe him as having a prickly mosaic of characteristics: dominant, strong-willed, powerful, egotistic, … most of all arrogant.—

Stephen S. Hall

egotistically

ˌē-gə-ˈti-sti-k(ə-)lē

also

ˌe-

adverb

behaving arrogantly and egotistically

He had no objection to honey, he said …, but he protested against the overweening assumptions of bees. … If every confectioner went buzzing about the world banging against everything that came in his way and egotistically calling upon everybody to take notice that he was going to his work and must not be interrupted, the world would be quite an unsupportable place. —

Charles Dickens

Examples of egotistical in a Sentence

the egotistic pro quarterback was always too busy to sign autographs, forgetting that the fans had paid good money to see him play the true spirit of the Christmas season is the resolve to be less egotistic and more altruistic

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From this noble, if admittedly egotistical goal, come gaslighting, madness, war, self-mutilation, and murder. —

James Grebey, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024 Pharrell Williams’s egotistical fantasy Talent is not always original. —

Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024 One scene portrays a tense argument among members of the group when egotistical then-lead singer David Ruffin (played by Leon Robinson) insists that the group’s audiences are attending their shows to see him. —

Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2024 The poster is of Downey as the egotistical Australian thespian Kirk Lazarus, who takes Method acting to an extreme. —

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