egoistic
Adjective
Meaning
Alt. of Egoistical
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Antonyms
Show all antonymsRelated terms
Phrases with the word
Examples
Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.
An egoistic person can't realize his own mistakes, but can always find mistakes of others.