Egotism Definition

Egotism Sentence Examples

• Henry's egotism was profound, and personal motives underlay his public action.

• But even in this crowning triumph the cramping egotism of his nature - a mental vice which now grew on him rapidly - fatally narrowed his outlook and led him to commit an irretrievable blunder.

• His character, notwithstanding the egotism by which it was disfigured, had an amiable and engaging side.

• The saving salt of Elizabeth's character, with all its wellnigh incredible mixture of heroism and egotism, meanness and magnificence, was simply this, that, overmuch as she loved herself, she did yet love England better.

• To a man of Johnson's strong understanding and irritable temper, the silly egotism and adulation of Boswell must have been as teasing as the constant buzz of a fly.