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- adjective Caring about
oneself rather than others. - adjective
Egotistical .
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- adjective limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs
Etymologies
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Examples
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Every time Barack Obama does something all presidents - or many – have done in the past, a bunch of bloggers, etc., start carping that he has no right ot do it, or he's egoistical. he's the president, for heaven's sake!
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Humans engage in war for many reasons, mostly egoistical, and we cannot train other species to sacrifice their own lives for the plight of humankind.
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Humans engage in war for many reasons, mostly egoistical, and we cannot train other species to sacrifice their own lives for the plight of humankind.
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The answer is that there is quite a bit more going on than just restoring a bunch of egoistical and willful financial tycoons to positions of power and wealth.
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Why such egoistical intellectual imperialism not to mention spectacular absence of logical consistency should be so popular these days is a mystery to me.
The Volokh Conspiracy » From the California Supreme Court’s Prop. 8 Decision: 2009
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Why such egoistical intellectual imperialism not to mention spectacular absence of logical consistency should be so popular these days is a mystery to me.
The Volokh Conspiracy » From the California Supreme Court’s Prop. 8 Decision: 2009
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I fault both parents Palin and husband for putting their egoistical needs before that of their children.
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I think he sees himself as part of the team and not just an egoistical head of government.
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I think he sees himself as part of the team and not just an egoistical head of goverment.
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How about, the Marx Brothers were brilliant, light, spontaneous and anarchic and Karl Marx was a controlling, egoistical fruit cake.
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