Crossword-Solution: EGOTISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Egotism | n. | The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EGOTISM (5)
The eyes were large and mild; and—this may seem egotism on my part—I fancied even that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them.
From the high pinnacle of their egotism the First Born had been plunged to the depths of humiliation.
Just a shade of his egotism was occasionally apparent—never sufficient to become a burden to his associates.
And if he must do something for himself, I don't see why his egotism shouldn't as well take that form as another.
Perhaps I may be forgiven for the seeming egotism if I mention the expansion of my own life partly as an example of what I mean.
Quotes with EGOTISM (3)
It has always seemed strange to me... The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of love; he is also negating his love for anyone else. In that one act by which he chooses her, he rejects all that is not her. There is no other real way in which to prove we love a thing than by choosing it in preference to something else. Word and signs of love may be, and often are, expressions of …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 40 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).