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egomaniacal
[ ee-goh-muh-nahy-i-kuhl, eg-oh- ]
adjective
- displaying egomania; abnormally or extremely selfish and self-centered, with an excessively high opinion of oneself:
His followers are eerily similar to those of another egomaniacal psychopath in the 1930s—Adolf Hitler.
Professor Lang is a vain, strutting buffoon, given to egomaniacal rages and ridiculous posturing.
Other Word Forms
- ···Ծ··· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of egomaniacal1
Example Sentences
Trump is not a king, and we don’t have to collectively pretend that he is or act as if this is some sort of joke—just as we don’t have to tolerate unelected lunatics from the Heritage Foundation or unelected egomaniacal billionaires setting the rules for a pluralistic America.
Along with the headline tweak, editors cut out much of Reinhart’s framing, which was critical of Kennedy, including his charge that Kennedy, “via his egomaniacal disregard for scientific evidence, seeks to use law itself to inflict preventable death on those millions,” per his initial draft of the piece.
Sitting for the “Filmmaker Toolkit” podcast, Eggers joked to host Chris O’Falt, “It feels ugly and blasphemous and egomaniacal and disgusting for a filmmaker in my place to do ‘Nosferatu’ next.”
He doesn’t take his craft or himself too seriously: In a span of less than 30 minutes, he tells me that he’s ignorant, frail, terrified, egomaniacal, terrible, rage-filled and vain.
She earned a second Oscar for her magnificent supporting turn in Herbert Ross’ 1978 film “California Suite,” playing an egomaniacal British actress who has come to Los Angeles with her husband to attend the Academy Awards as her marriage unravels.
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