Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word egostistical.

Examples

  • Why would we expect to vote for Obama - She is somewhat egostistical-she should vote for McCain!

    Ferraro suggests she may not vote for Obama 2008

  • Keats's own formulation seems to separate his Poetical Character from, for example, the "wordsworthian or egostistical sublime".

    Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism) 2005

  • Another egostistical nutcase that came back to take another whack at destroying his own country was of course Napoleon.

    Think Progress » Cheney: Rumsfeld ‘Is the Finest Secretary of Defense This Nation Has Ever Had’ 2006

  • All but one of the main characters are drawn from history, so anyone familiar with the period or Shakespeare's history plays will have their own sense of who they are - which can only make Penman's task more difficult, but they are all realised with crispness, freshness and vigour: Edward IV, a man for a crisis but rudderless without one; Elizabeth Woodville, his calculating and ambitious parvenu Queen; John Neville, destroyed by his split loyalties; his brother Richard, 'the Kingmaker', at once charming, manipulative and egostistical.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009

  • All but one of the main characters are drawn from history, so anyone familiar with the period or Shakespeare's history plays will have their own sense of who they are - which can only make Penman's task more difficult, but they are all realised with crispness, freshness and vigour: Edward IV, a man for a crisis but rudderless without one; Elizabeth Woodville, his calculating and ambitious parvenu Queen; John Neville, destroyed by his split loyalties; his brother Richard, 'the Kingmaker', at once charming, manipulative and egostistical.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Tim Stretton 2009

  • …She had asked my friends the same sort of dumb question, so i was prepared for it and followed up with “That would be narcissistic, egostistical and redundant of me, now wouldn’t it?”

    make da voicez - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.