Self-important type, say, Middle Easterner about to suffer setback

Usage examples of egomaniac.

She had nothing but contempt for such hedonistic, power-mad egomaniacs as this, and no more compunction about dealing with them than she would when dealing with a poisonous snake.

And if you do it, it will be because this crazy, selfdefeating system gives limitless power to egomaniacs and kooks and charlatans like you.

The mass tort brotherhood is full of throat-cutters and egomaniacs, but a few of us try to take care of each other.

You and that egomaniac Ralph Nader will have us all drinking arsenic in our water before we know it.

This was the liberal myth -- that some drug-addled egomaniac writer from Woody Creek had run amok on horse-tranquilizers, and then laid his bad trip on the local Head population.

After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body’s final trick is simply to absent itself.

The time had come to maneuver his loved one past needing to deal with these egomaniacs so that they might reach the paradise of the s&eacute.

The strictures governing human cloning were motivated not just by fear of totalitarian governments force-growing armies of identical supersoldiers, but also by the danger of wealthy egomaniacs using it as a substitute for natural reproduction.

As for Hugh Cleveland, that egomaniac I work for, what do you suppose he's contributing to the war effort, Mom?