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egotism

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Miranda keeps a sort of tender distance away from Larson’s perspective, so that we have room to critique both his egotism and his music, which is juvenile, frequently mediocre, and only occasionally brilliant.

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Morgan chalked this up to a combination of male pride and egotism.

For all his egotism and irascibility, Churchill was a good man as well as a great one.

It also protects the individual against egotism and delusions of grandeur.

Instead of displaying what would have been, in context, a healthy egotism as the mug fell, Leno looked as vulnerable as a child.

Success in our politics often requires a voracious, antinomian egotism, a sense that rules are for others.

As regards money, from the moment I left Russia I have not ceased to reproach myself for my unfeeling egotism.

Is she more exempt from egotism, does she dislike others less, and has she fewer worldly affections?

To their last day Jenkins's clients went about, showed themselves, cheated the devouring egotism of the crowd.

He knew that the old man had no sentiments beyond egotism, and a family pride which mainly, if not entirely, sprang from it.

Compromise in small or great seemed cowardice, and there was no doubt a strain of egotism in his obstinacy.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to egotism, such as: arrogance, narcissism, self-absorption, selfishness, boastfulness, and bragging.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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