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Self-centered one
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egotist
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Word definitions for egotist in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1714, "one who makes too frequent use of the first-person singular pronoun," see ego + -ist . First attested in Joseph Addison (see egotism ). Related: Egotistic ; egotistical ; egotistically .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Any man that thinks civilization had advanced is an egotist . ▪ Give any young egotist two shots of dope and an automatic and he will hold up the government mint. ▪ Luckily none of us are massive egotists, we're down-to-earth ...
Usage examples of egotist.
He seems an apocalyptic egotist willing to sacrifice world for self, at least so far.
And I did these things, not that I was an egotist, not that I was impervious to the critical glances of my fellows, but because of a certain hogskin belt, plethoric and sweatbewrinkled, which buckled next the skin above the hips.
Sir Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist: whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying.
He was by no means an egotist, and seemed never at a loss for something to talk about.
Phoebe paid his debt, and gave Cartwright a present, and away rattled the train conveying the handsome egotist into temporary retirement, to wit, at a village five miles from the Dales' farm.
It's only fools and egotists who think no one will be there to lend a hand.
But he was such a self-delighted ass that he got on the nerves of sterner egotists, like you.
He could almost have hated this man before him-Quennel, with that touch of religiosity all compassionate egotists have: the superiority is expressed through self-effacement.
Besides, for every screaming egotist there was a Bradley, and for every publicity-mad military ham there were great men like Terry Allen and General Roosevelt, while in the ranks, billeted with the stinking, cheating, foul-mouthed goldbricks, there were true heroes, kindly men, intelligent men who knew or thought they knew what they were fighting for and took all the rest in their stride.
Goidom's successes had entered the realm of legerdemain, but he seriously doubted that Bad Clams, the egotist, the pseudophilosopher with the hair-trigger temper, was in the league of either Goldoni or his own father, the brilliant Leon Waxman.