egotistical

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“
Yours How like her that letter is;--egotistical, vain, foolish; no, not foolish--narrow, limited, but not foolish; worldly, oh, how worldly!

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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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  • "At the risk of sounding egotistical, a lot of the broken up stuff that these guys are playing now stems from the stuff that I had started doing." —  Home of the Groove
  • If the people in charge are very egotistical, then they want to take credit for everything that happens, and they want to feel that they are in control of everything that happens, and that means consciously or unconsciously they will discourage creativity in other people. —  Moving at the Speed of Creativity
  • I've got news for Mr. Steele: Any party that has a narrow-minded, egotistical, and self-centered ideologue like Rush Limbaugh as a mouthpiece is not "all good." —  CNN Political Ticker
  • That would be selfish, egotistical, and unworthy of everything the Saga has given us. —  starwars.com Blogs
  • Long-time Twitter fans were outraged that anyone - let alone a two-bit TV actor - would be so blatantly egotistical, and trivialize such a great social-media tool in that way, just so he could get on the Oprah show. —  AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media
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