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Recent Examples of egotism For all his egotism, there was something selfless in his work. David Denby, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025 Gratitude is the opposite of selfishness, egotism, avarice or narcissism. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024 The 1960s-era egotism in that earlier vision was tempered. Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 Gratitude is the opposite of selfishness, egotism, avarice or narcissism. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for egotism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for egotism
Noun
  • Lean a framed print against the wall in the center of a wide vanity or on a shelf above the toilet.
    Dina Cheney, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025
  • The Eden's bathroom is placed on the opposite side of the home to the entrance and has a toilet, a vanity sink, and a walk-in shower, plus a little more storage space.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Our state and federal politicians must insist on order and basic due process in ICE’s performance of its duties, not the chaos and confusion inherent in playing up to Trump’s enormous ego, tiny vocabulary and constantly flip-flopping orders, statements and media posts.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2025
  • These are the sorts of fantasies that cultivate the delicate, fledgling egos of the inexperienced, giving them enough hope, whether about their good fortune or their capacity to aestheticize bad fortune, to continue into the uncertain future.
    Book Marks July 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Eventually, though, the depth and selfishness of corporate psychopathy in unchecked leadership positions can cost an organization the trust of its employees.
    Shawn Cole, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • Speaking on ground where the Indonesian military had buried Timorese freedom fighters, Francis warned against the intrusion of Western liberal values that encourage materialism and selfishness.
    VICTOR GAETAN, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In advance of the ceremony, the finalists were asked an essential question: Orwell claimed that prose writers have four ‘great motivations’ (putting aside the need to earn a living): sheer egoism; aesthetic enthusiasm; historical impulse; and political purpose.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
  • Trump’s slogans—America First and Make America Great Again—embody the essence of populism, namely using ideology to advance a political program that is morally unconstrained and driven by collective egoism.
    BÁLINT MADLOVICS, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the Pride Month display at the Stonewall National Monument excluded transgender pride flags this year, according to ABC News.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
  • Tall soldiers, the pride of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century armies—and in the case of Frederick William I of Prussia’s Potsdam Giants, a virtual fetish—became a liability on nineteenth-century battlefields.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • He was always meant to be a cautionary tale and to show the dangers of narcissism.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • That narcissism, combined with a lack of understanding regarding the risks of the Titan, resulted in an unbending belief in his own creation.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • This silliness, the silliness of his arrogance, was actually funny to me.
    Ottessa Moshfegh, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • On the dark side, however, Mercury in Leo can spark moments of arrogance and stubbornness.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Such assumptions are based more on psychological phenomena like egocentrism.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Imagine that a person starts and ends all their consideration with what’s best for them — that’s egocentrism.
    David Marchese, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025

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