egoistic

variants also egoistical
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Recent Examples of egoistic Three hundred high school players gather at a remote facility to compete in ruthless trials where only one will emerge as the world’s greatest and most egoistic striker. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for egoistic
Adjective
  • Each of these decisions laid the groundwork for the war on Iran today, one that started without a clear strategy on the arrogant expectation of a quick victory.
    Alexander Langlois, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The data center industry is only one face of an arrogant oligarchy that people believe now runs Congress, the courts, the White House, state legislatures and local governments.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Both make token contributions to efforts to support Ukraine, often for selfish reasons.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Not because this generation is somehow softer or more selfish.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The proud mom shared pictures of her and Green cuddling their little one in the hospital room, concealing the newborn’s face in the snaps.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Glasner is aware of Forest’s proud record of having an academy product in every matchday squad since 1941.
    Paul Taylor, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Historian Sandgruber describes how Alois Hitler wrote his 1895 letters in a deeply smug, anti-clerical manner that overestimated his abilities.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • Li at times plays Cola with a smug impetuousness that belies her naivety about this world to a satisfying degree.
    Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 17 June 2026
Adjective
  • Through remarkable archival footage and an incredible range of interviews, Monsters of God digs into the egotistical and ruthless mentalities that supported competing criminal empires and the undercover operations that dismantled them.
    Rory Doherty, Time, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Where some may see this behavior as vain or egotistical, others may perceive it as bold, self-assured and passionate.
    Mallorie Sullivan, USA Today, 20 July 2026
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Johnson reprises his role as Moana's bantering reluctant partner, the shapeshifting trickster demigod Maui, alongside Jemaine Clement again voicing the conceited giant crustacean Tamatoa.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
  • Avoid Burying Praise in Negatives To avoid making children too conceited, parents might bury praise in the midst of negatives.
    Wayne Parker, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Claire’s elective death therefore remains a problematic choice for some viewers, an act of vainglorious selfishness from a woman who was never terribly nice to begin with.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
  • Melodramatic and vainglorious, moody and capricious, a fidgety, neurotic hypochondriac, Stalin was a bundle of appalling contradictions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Hoult’s Gilderoy Lockhart a notoriously vain, boastful and fame-obsessed wizard well versed in Memory Charms who is recruited by Dumbledore as Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
  • They are expected to become wiser but not louder, visible but not vain, accomplished but not demanding, and well-preserved but not provocative.
    Debbie Millman, Time, 25 July 2026

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“Egoistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/egoistic. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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