egotisticadjective
also egotistical, uk/-tɪ.kəl/usuk/ˌiː.ɡəˈtɪs.tɪk/us/ˌiː.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪk/considering yourself to be better or more important than other people
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Showing arrogance and conceit
- (as) proud as Lucifer idiom
- a cut above idiom
- airs and graces idiom
- arrogant
- as if you owned the place idiom
- brash
- cocksure
- egocentric
- egoistic
- get on your high horse idiom
- haughty
- hifalutin
- overbearing
- preen
- put on the dog idiom
- revolve
- revolve around sb/sth
- self-appointed
- self-importance
- snotty
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egotistically
adverb uk/ˌiː.ɡəˈtɪs.tɪ.kəl.i/us/ˌiː.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪ.kəl.i/
Examples from literature
- He was intensely egotistic, and totally indifferent to all religious belief.
- He was not unduly egotistic.
- She was superficial, incapable, egotistic, coquettish and pretty.
- Thus the reminiscences are, in a sense, extraordinarily egotistic.
- Very egotistic and willful in his youth, careless of his affairs, and an imprudent gambler, at thirty years of age he had not yet settled down.