egotistic

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He realized the emotional, egotistic, and artistic soul.

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  1. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
  2. characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance

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  • The Hamlet in Stevenson - the self-questioning, egotistic, moralising Hamlet - was, and to the end remained, a something alien to bold, dramatic, creative freedom. —  Robert Louis Stevenson, A Record, An Estimate, A Memorial
  • Ranking herself near the top of the gossip hit parade wasn't egotistic or self-indulgent. —  Ledbetter, Suzann - North of Clever
  • Here we come clodhopping in, intending to misuse her for our egotistic goals. —  The Sergeant’s Cat and other stories - Janwillem van de Wetering
  • If she was so egotistic, why hadn't he noticed before? —  Asimov'sSF,February2008
  • To people who know him only as the elegant theorist of art, sentimental and egotistic, as they will have it, there must be something strange, almost irreconcilable, in his devotion, week after week and year after year, to these night-classes. —  The Life of John Ruskin
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