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Believing self-interest is the basis of morality
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egoistic
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Word definitions for egoistic in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 egoistical. 2 egotistic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Egoistic \E`go*is"tic\, Egoistical \E`go*is"tic*al\, a. Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving. Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable. --G. Eliot.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to the self [ant: altruistic ]
Usage examples of egoistic.
All of this and more, Macklin learned in the day he spent with Buntline, who was pleasant enough as a com- panion, if a bit egoistic.
That man had been the first to divide him in the all but equal slices of his egoistic from his amatory self: murder of his individuality was the crime of Horace De Craye.
To a highly advanced and very peaceful civilization, nothing would be more dangerous than a race of murderous fools, incapable of acting sensible, and with large xenophobic and egoistic factors in their psychological makeup.
Since he had learned, by force of many pains and disappointments, Katherine Cahill Mathison was malcriada, immature, egoistic and vain.
Vincy's wishes about his son had had a great deal of pride, inconsiderateness, and egoistic folly in them.
Fear, on the contrary, and all the contracted and egoistic modes of thought, are inlets to destruction.