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egotist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | egoist, swellhead |
| Type of | unpleasant person, disagreeable person |
| Has types | braggart, bragger, egomaniac, exhibitionist, know-all, know-it-all, line-shooter, megalomaniac, miles gloriosus, popinjay, show-off, blowhard, vaunter, boaster |
| Derivation | egotism, egotistic, egotistical |
Examples of egotist
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Mittenhofe the poet is a monstrous egotist who uses people to provide fodder for his art.
From the bloomberg.com
Byron, for example, revels in anecdotes that portray Stewart as a mean-spirited egotist.
From the businessweek.com
He is equal parts Gates and Jobs, engineer and visionary, industrialist and, yes, egotist.
From the time.com
He is not an egotist who claims he should be protected ahead of promising younger divers.
From the guardian.co.uk
He is a dutiful son and a shameless stud, a romantic egotist and sometimes a little boy lost.
From the time.com
It is just as selfish and manipulating as that of a pompous egotist.
From the psychcentral.com
To critics, billionaire publishing baron Robert Maxwell is a capricious, blustering egotist.
From the time.com
Pablo Picasso, a painter without peer, lived and died an egotist.
From the guardian.co.uk
Just because mr Ostergaard is rumoured to be an egotist doesnt mean he's a bad judge of character.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A conceited and self-centered person
- (egotistic) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
- (egotistic) conceited: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed ...
- (egotism) an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
- (egotism) ego: an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- Egotism is the motivation to maintain and enhance favorable views of oneself. Egotism means placing oneself at the center of one's world with no direct concern for others, including those loved or considered as "close", in any other terms by the "egoist".
- A person who talks excessively about himself; A person who believes in his own importance or superiority; An egoist
- (egotistic) Egotistical; Egoistic
- (egotism) A tendency to talk excessively about oneself; A belief that one is superior to or more important than others; Egoism; The result or product of being egoistic
