How to Use egotistical in a Sentence

egotistical

adjective
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  • The singer reflected on the idea that his confidence was egotistical at the time.
    — EW.com, 1 July 2024
  • And that was able to happen because — and not saying this in an egotistical way.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Or maybe because Davis hasn’t turned into the egotistical jerk that Dwight became.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • These throwbacks are neither gratuitous nor egotistical in Poitras' hands; due to the cyclical themes the film explores, almost always, the past is in service of the present.
    — CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • But James, buoyed by the possibility of conquest (and of dealing a blow to his egotistical brother-in-law), refused.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Oct. 2020
  • By comparing Apollo to a dog, and rendering the rape of Daphne as the brutal act of an egotistical, narcissistic man, Ovid took risks.
    — The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Pride to me is being self-confident, but not egotistical.
    — Harvey MacKay, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2022
  • But Loretta and Ben are just two egotistical thespians among many.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
  • As the two-and-a-half–minute trailer shows, Dracula (Nicolas Cage), is pretty annoying and egotistical.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This one dares to show that humans can be complex and paradoxical, egotistical and gentle.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Many employers have inched toward forcing them back in the office, and this new research makes that seem more benevolent than egotistical.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Claiming the center of attention is something that feels so dreadfully egotistical to me.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
  • When our salespeople approach a customer by talking about the product or our company, they are seen as egotistical and fail to generate trust.
    — Esade Business & Law School, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The remark was pure Kissinger — witty, brash, egotistical and cynical — and comprised a nine-word summary of his version of realism.
    — Norman Kempster, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The story follows the production of a big-budget superhero movie, and one of the characters is an egotistical actor who disrupts and delays filming.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2023
  • To be able to explain things between each other, to help mediate a problem instead of being egotistical about it or being arrogant.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 25 Apr. 2022
  • However, crossing the line from ego-aware to ‘egotistical’ (i.e., an inflated ego that is solely focused on achieving one’s own wants and needs) can be more self-damaging than self-protective.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Some would say that this is both egotistical, meaning that the brake checking driver is over endowing their own driving acumen, and idealistic thinking too.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • Everyone in the novel is jostling for small scraps of power, even if that only means more commissions for a local silversmith or commanding the favor of the egotistical magistrate.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 7 June 2021
  • Ian exclaims in the trailer, reacting to news of the beefy actor (playing himself) being booked to portray the egotistical developer in motion-capture.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Oct. 2022
  • It’s based on Mary Shelley’s novel about the brilliant but egotistical scientist Victor Frankenstein, who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Rachel Berry, a sympathetic, but egotistical heroine who strove to be in the spotlight, notoriously made her life goal to play Fanny Brice on Broadway, an arc which was prominently part of the show's plotline for many seasons.
    — Wilson Wong, NBC News, 12 July 2022
  • When her former boss wakes up months later demanding to resume his duties, Sam is tasked with supervising this egotistical expert.
    — Marc Berman, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • Teach them how to politely and professionally handle their problems and nip others’ egotistical behaviors in the bud.
    — Kara Dennison, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • But only a fool could not see that this is a deeply honest and courageous work from an actor digging deep into what now matters to him, a self-probing of uncommon intensity that never comes off as overly egotistical or glib.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The spirituality and egotistical heroism of it all is a staple of the genre, and very Wagner—yet the abstraction and performance lean so much more into the realm of modernist, existentialist art.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Mar. 2023
  • If Billy’s younger brother Graham is explicit in the novel about his issues with his talented, egotistical brother, the show’s Graham is gentle and unbothered.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Once such character is Spider-Monkey, a violent, egotistical alternative to Spider-Man who had no qualms about killing villains who refused to reform.
    — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
  • Dunster, on the other hand, earned his first-ever Emmy nomination this year for his role of Jamie Tartt, who starts out as a selfish, egotistical ball hog who transforms into a far more emotionally mature team player by the final season.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Sid Justice, though competent in other matches, is given few opportunities to prove himself as a rising star against the notoriously egotistical Hogan.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024

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