variants or egotistical
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for egotistic
Adjective
  • This is a prideful team that knows it was dealt a bad hand this year.
    Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The Memphis Grizzlies are one of the more prideful teams in the NBA.
    C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • And, in the context of wanting to grow up, being subject to another person’s selfish patterns is a pretty fundamental life experience.
    Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
  • These people start out as aging narcissists with selfish intentions who try to navigate when each of them gets grounded in their own vulnerability.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • The targets of Trump’s economic aggression will accept greater hardship to preserve their dignity than American voters will for the privilege of acting like arrogant menaces.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2025
  • This feud carries on today, with Hogan having called out Hart for being too arrogant.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are proud of the state of stoner comedy.
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 3 May 2025
  • This is something that New England should be proud of.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • As mild-mannered schoolteacher Mr. Lisbon, James Woods plays a quiet counterpoint to his domineering wife.
    Sezin Devi Koehler, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Among them towers the frighteningly domineering Honoria Glossop.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The cavalier way that Jon Hamm’s Matt dials up another decade of punishment in solitary confinement for his digital egg prisoner and takes a nonchalant sip of coffee is one of the most devilish on-screen actions in TV history.
    Steve Greene, IndieWire, 12 Apr. 2025
  • These include basset hounds; beagles; bulldogs; cavalier king Charles spaniels; collies; golden retrievers; Labrador retrievers; papillons; and pugs.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Egotistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/egotistic. Accessed 12 May. 2025.

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