Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To act in an egotistic manner.
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Examples
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Or then again, perhaps Mandelson is just another out-of-touch jerk with no judgement - he was after all a big promoter of the costly and farcical Millennium Dome ego-trip ...
UK govt proposes idiotic two-strikes-and-you're-out Internet copyright rule - Boing Boing 2009
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One minor villain is totally in it for the ego-trip.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Marissa’s Review Forum 2009
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Sometimes I think when people do that sort of thing it's some sort of ego-trip compensation for being mostly a 3rd rater in a 2nd rate world.
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Smug, egotistical, and thieves of a common heritage, if this over-blown ego-trip is true.
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It is a one-way system, a shouting match between the deaf and the mute, an ego-trip, a tyrannny, a carving cut in stone.
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Sometimes I think when people do that sort of thing it's some sort of ego-trip compensation for being mostly a 3rd rater in a 2nd rate world.
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She is on an ego-trip the size that I have never seen before.
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However, while heaping scorn and even abuse on the author may be an ego-trip par excellence, I find it embarrassing and almost pathetic.
post mortem 2008
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Smug, egotistical, and thieves of a common heritage, if this over-blown ego-trip is true.
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The payment that bloggers get is the vast ego-trip which the thought of people reading their words sends them on.
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