Egoistic
[,iːɡəʊ'ɪstɪk]
Definition
(adj.) limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs .
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Definition
(a.) Alt. of Egoistical
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Examples
- One single man is to be noted as inspired by broad ideas and an ambition not entirely egoistic, Cicero. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Given an egoistic consciousness, how can action which has regard for others take place? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In reality, Mr. Vincy's wishes about his son had had a great deal of pride, inconsiderateness, and egoistic folly in them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In his closest meditations the life-long habit of Mr. Bulstrode's mind clad his most egoistic terrors in doctrinal references to superhuman ends. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But in this finishing off of the _civiles_ he was egoistic. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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