How to Use egocentric in a Sentence

egocentric

adjective

• But either way, people tend to be — not in a bad way, but — egocentric.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
• Wide receivers are about as egocentric as players come in the NFL.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• Think off-camera and outside the egocentric perspective framed by the ad.
  — Evan Selinger, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2013
• Most are understandably very egocentric right now and to have her take time out of her life to bake for strangers, that’s pretty special.
  — David Sharos, ajc, 17 Dec. 2017
• Impulsive, egocentric, and mendacious, Trump has, in the same span, set fire to the integrity of his office.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• The first group suffered from a condition called egocentric neglect, unaware of space on one side of their bodies.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
• Whatever happened to the egocentric man that was supposed to upset the balance of the Gunners dressing room?
  — SI.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• It’s a typical Welles bon mot, blustery and witty and egocentric.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
• In this, the special extends the egocentric logic evinced by Aziz Ansari in his recent Netflix special.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2019
• Some of those regions overlapped with the egocentric areas; others extended farther back in the brain.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
• As the White House aides scrambling to calm the president surely understand, even Trump could not survive such a seismic and egocentric abuse of power.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 14 June 2017
• The hippocampus is the region where these egocentric, episodic memories are made.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2018
• Contrasting with her debut, her writing takes on a less egocentric approach; the lyrics share the experiences of her family, friends, and those around her.
  — Ryan Cahill, Teen Vogue, 22 Oct. 2018
• But the vast majority of people are, by definition, and as a need for survival, egocentric.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
• Why let Steph Curry get injured in a meaningless match against an egocentric Houston Rockets team?
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2016
• Men who score high in psychopathy tend to fit the alpha male archetype of being dominant, fearless, aggressive, and egocentric.
  — Simon Croom, Fortune, 6 June 2021
• And, at least in rats, those egocentric viewpoints get encoded into long term memories.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2018
• The assistant to an egocentric social-media influencer finds love the old-fashioned way: by working with a vet to find her boss’ missing dog before Christmas.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
• This is especially true for younger children, who are egocentric and prone to magical thinking.
  — Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 23 June 2020
• But why have these three, very different but equally egocentric people been brought together?
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
• Larry Hagman’s egocentric oil baron J.R. Ewing gunned down.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
• By decreasing blood flow to the brain’s default mode network, verbal planning and egocentric behavior are lessened.
  — Natan Ponieman, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• The biggest threat to their reputation is being seen as elitist or egocentric or a bad boss — the traits most associated with the old guard of magazine editors.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2021
• Roman’s pedagogy, on the other hand, is proudly egocentric.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
• Resignation has always been a small-odds proposition for this egocentric President, but today the stars are more aligned for that result than ever before.
  — Time, 9 Dec. 2019
• The results largely align with egocentric bias, our ability to overestimate how much others — God included — are just like us, authors said.
  — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 12 June 2018
• And that vision was not not egocentric, self-centered or nationalistic.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 June 2021
• There’s nothing egocentric or bombastic in this delight.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022
• And the wonder involved in the Romantic sublime is similarly egocentric.
  — Martha C. Nussbaum, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
• Thirty years ago most psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists thought that babies and young children were irrational, egocentric and amoral.
  — Alison Gopnik, Scientific American, 1 May 2016

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024