All 11 Uses
egotistical
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This Side of Paradise
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- BOOK ONE—The Romantic Egotist CHAPTER 1.†
Chpt 1.1 *egotist = someone who is conceited and self-centered
- ** SNAPSHOTS OF THE YOUNG EGOTIST Amory spent nearly two years in Minneapolis.†
Chpt 1.1
- ** CODE OF THE YOUNG EGOTIST Before he was summoned back to Lake Geneva, he had appeared, shy but inwardly glowing, in his first long trousers, set off by a purple accordion tie and a "Belmont" collar with the edges unassailably meeting, purple socks, and handkerchief with a purple border peeping from his breast pocket.†
Chpt 1.1
- ** THE EGOTIST DOWN Amory's two years at St. Regis', though in turn painful and triumphant, had as little real significance in his own life as the American "prep" school, crushed as it is under the heel of the universities, has to American life in general.†
Chpt 1.1
- The Egotist Considers†
Chpt 1.3
- Amory talked; he went thoroughly into the destruction of his egotistic highways, and in a half-hour the listless quality had left his voice.†
Chpt 1.3egotistic = conceited and self-centered
- After Amory returned to college he received several letters from Monsignor which gave him more egotistic food for consumption.†
Chpt 1.3
- There never were men placed in such egotistic positions since—oh, since the French Revolution.†
Chpt 2.2
- The Egotist Becomes a Personage†
Chpt 2.5egotist = someone who is conceited and self-centered
- He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumstances and environment; that often when he raged at himself as an egotist something would whisper ingratiatingly: "No. Genius!"†
Chpt 2.5
- Yes—I was perhaps an egotist in youth, but I soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself.†
Chpt 2.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(egotistical) conceited and self-centered
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)