Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an egoistic manner; as regards one's self.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an egoistic manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in an
egoistic manner In Objectivist philosophy, "in a manner of rational self-interest."
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Examples
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I've been very busy with my business, and I didn't want to hand this over to someone else, so I egoistically kept the artworks in crates, in the warehouse.
ARTINFO: Keeping It Real: A Q&A With Greek Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos 2010
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So that house could have had 50 people and all of them could be very egoistically/individually centered on the needs of themselves as an individual rather than the needs of the others.
Sound Off: The Happening - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I've been very busy with my business, and I didn't want to hand this over to someone else, so I egoistically kept the artworks in crates, in the warehouse.
ARTINFO: Keeping It Real: A Q&A With Greek Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos 2010
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And if you couple this with McCain's inability to project anything but sarcasm, bitterness and an egoistically misplaced anger, you don't even need to tell people what the differences between these two men are.
Obama: The Economic Despair Many Are Suffering Is "Un-American" 2009
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The objection, however, lies precisely in this attempt to explain my concern for my beloved egoistically.
Love Helm, Bennett 2009
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This pattern of results is not consistent with what would be expected if empathically aroused individuals are egoistically motivated to avoid looking bad in the eyes of others; it is quite consistent with what would be expected if empathy evokes altruistic motivation to reduce the victim's need (Batson 1991: 134).
Hanging 2009
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In this case even an egoistically motivated person would help in the high empathy/easy escape condition.
Empathy Stueber, Karsten 2008
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The Cheney/Bush spin doctors may continue to egoistically assume they can manipulate middle class voters into loving or at least financing and fighting their war with their sons and daughters, while their own kids are safe at Yale, Harvard and Stanford.
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Which of us is proof against the temptation of making a display of magnanimity, or of playing egoistically with another devoted heart?
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Think about it before ramblling stupidities… he egoistically took an INNOCENT life and injured many others.
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