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Recent Examples of egotism Rather than prop up her parents as easy targets, Bartlett lays bare their contradictory humanity over a 44-year journey from wide-eyed idealism to head-in-the-sand egotism. Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024 The compassion in this new cut doesn’t undercut the many scenes of bad behavior, rock-star excess, self-defeating egotism, and descent into junkiedom. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024 The vibe is one of camp send-up of Hollywood narcissism, but irony and egotism are blended like a fine Bordeaux. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024 These were Iowans, after all, staid and true, embarrassed by egotism, but eventually the guys in overalls seemed puzzled, then most of the rest. Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for egotism 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for egotism
Noun
  • But even then, some of the talk is witty and instructive, building toward a resolution that, if not happy, feels conciliatory and hard-earned, while true to its characters’ flaws and vanities.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 Dec. 2024
  • This is relatively spacious and includes a washer/dryer hookup, flushing toilet, vanity sink, and a shower/bath unit, which is always a luxury in a tiny house.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The mentors who called you out, the lessons that battered your ego.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • After surviving the Holocaust, a Hungarian Jewish architect (Adrien Brody) comes to America and is commissioned by an industrialist (Guy Pearce) to build a community center, while trying to bring his wife (Felicity Jones) over from Europe and weathering his own ego and vices.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • His selfishness ran counterintuitive to the label’s ethos, which Faith Evans described as being familial.
    Jayson Rodriguez, Variety, 18 Nov. 2024
  • But that would just be a less destructive version of Bezos’s selfishness.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information, Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Somewhere in the nearby dry grasses another pride of lions lurk, ready to pounce on any younger buffalo whose hooves end up stuck in the mud.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The project leader, Tomohiro Nomi, expressed pride in the accomplishment, emphasizing that the robot’s AI was designed to develop its own optimal throwing style.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Personality Disorders: Traits like narcissism can exacerbate manipulative behaviors that have always been present.
    Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Johanson’s narrator refers frequently to the narcissism of actors and their hunger for approval.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Kudos are also due Christian Probst as a prince without a drop of royal arrogance.
    Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Barack Obama came across to his foes as the principle of arrogance.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Other simulations have relied on personality trait theory, which holds that people have varying levels of psychoticism (aggression and egocentrism), extraversion (associated with more daring behaviors) and neuroticism (linked to anxiety and shyness).
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The common traits here are a lack of empathy and egocentrism.
    Ana Reed, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023

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