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egocentric

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  • n  a self-centered person with little regard for others
  • a  limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

  • It never occurred to the egocentric leader of the response team that the audience would like to hear others experiences also.
  • I n the course of several campaigns I started to believe that I was special, and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic.
  • However, along the way, as I got to see Moon as a person, an egocentric person, who believed that the whole world revolved around him.
News & Articles

  • Iconic comic Bill Cosby: ‘I’m not done yet’
    Temple University alumni are used to the sight of Bill Cosby walking along the sidelines and in the stands at Temple basketball and football games. Some students are taken aback at the sight of the iconic comic walking along with the masses. But Cosby isn’t like most of his egocentric peers. He doesn’t merely exist in a fortress of solitude.
    June 15, 2013 - The Wichita Eagle
Quotes

  • John Edwards in International Herald Tribune
    In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic,Edwards said in trying to explain his behavior.
  • Michel Houellebecq in guardian.co.uk
    ...theorists welcome the precious psychological insight into the biggest voice of a generation, but Houellebecq warned two years ago that his mother was "too egocentric to produce a significant account of anything other than herself".
  • Kelsey Grammer in Washington Post
    Kelsey Grammer says anchorman Chuck Darling is "great fun to play, because he is bombastic and egocentric, yet there is a goodness to him. And he is probably a bit more like I am than Frasier."

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