Sample sentences for EGOTISTICAL

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Definition

conceited and self-centered

She is accused of being egotistical and aloof.

egotistical = conceited and self-centered

She has talent, but is too egotistical.

egotistical = conceited and self-centered

Would you describe her as more egotistical or more humble?

egotistical = conceited and self-centered

He gets more exasperating and egotistical as the days go by.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

egotistical = conceited and self-centered

It was egotistical, but I've done what was best for my own peace of mind.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

egotistical = self-centered

It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

egotistical = conceited and self-centered

She's known to be exceedingly pushy, egotistical, cunning, calculating and perpetually dissatisfied.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

egotistical = conceited and self-centered

He listened with secret, egotistical mirth to the husky breathing of the two doctors.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
They are godless through and through, gross egotists, despicable materialists.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
But you will forgive me if I seem too egotistical.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
Three of them scrambled egotistically for the honor of pulling her into the boat, managing, among them, to bruise her knee and hip against the side.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
Ah, happiness is such an egotistical thing!
Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros
You want your Emily, every time she has an urge to write a poem, to just sit down and say a prayer till her nasty, egotistical urge goes away?
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
The bald egotistical swine.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
As I told you before, say nothing egotistical.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
The Norwegian and Swedish lads were much more self-centred, apt to be egotistical and jealous.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
The mild, blue-eyed young Ohio boy was a complete egotist, as all children are egotists.
Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio
I know that sounds really egotistical but I feel it.
Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
But Maggie's face, made more childlike by the gathering tears, touched him with a tenderer, less egotistic feeling.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
Oh, by what irony of fate was this cold selfish egotist sent to my kingdom, and you taken to the icy mansions of the sky!
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman

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