Crossword-Solution: EGOISTICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Egoistical | a. | Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “EGOISTICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Based on self-interest | 1 answer |
| Repeating I? | 1 answer |
| Conceited | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EGOISTICAL (5)
The history of a man’s soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egoistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment.
Back of these, back of individuals, he sees humanity, superior to individuals, superior to states, governments, and laws, and holds that he may trample on them all or give them to the winds at the call of humanity or "the higher law." The principle on which he acts is as indefensible as the personal or egoistical democracy of the slaveholders and their sympathizers.
The egoistical form is checked, sufficiently weakened by the defeat of the rebels; but the social form believes that it has triumphed, and that individuals are effaced in society, and the States in the Union.
Egoistical and hard, he has lived up to the last for show, throwing out his chest in a bubble of vanity.
His elder was provoked enough by his deadness of enthusiasm, and that the boy should dare to stalk on a bare egoistical lover's sentiment to be critical of him, Agostino, struck him as monstrous.
Quotes with EGOISTICAL (1)
Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is possible only through the fact that empathy with the universal life and suffering of mankind is very feebly developed in the individual. Even those rarer men who think beyond themselves at all have an eye, not for this universal life, but for fenced-off portions of it. If one knows how to keep the exceptions principally in view, I mean the greatly gifted and …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1983–2015).