Vocabulary Word
Word: egotistical
Definition: egotistic; excessively self-centered(egocentric); self-important; conceited
Definition: egotistic; excessively self-centered(egocentric); self-important; conceited
Sentences Containing 'egotistical'
Now, as I am not egotistical, we will return to our comrades and draw lots for her.'
Franz was not sufficiently egotistical to stop Albert in the middle of an adventure that promised to prove so agreeable to his curiosity and so flattering to his vanity.
``When I hear misfortunes named, madame,''he said,``I have within the last few months contracted the bad habit of thinking of my own, and then I can not help drawing up an egotistical parallel in my mind.
If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove's high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.
"There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things; look here,--three peaks as proud as Lucifer.
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