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 Translation for 'egoistic' from English to Czech
ADJ   egoistic | more egoistic | most egoistic
SYNO egocentric | egoistic | egoistical | ...
egoistic {adj}sobecký
egoistic {adj}egoistický
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Translation for 'egoistic' from English to Czech

egoistic {adj}
sobecký

egoistický
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Usage Examples English
  • He was, however, sometimes criticized for too egoistic play.
  • A bourgeois whose attention span is limited to his own egoistic ambitions, Sganarelle is blind to his daughter's love life.
  • Initially, the person with an egoistic tendency likes himself.
  • However, Hedonism is criticized by "āstika" ('theist', as in orthodox) schools of thought on the basis that it is inherently egoistic and therefore detrimental to spiritual liberation.
  • Roark embodies Rand's egoistic moral ideals, especially the virtues of independence and integrity.

  • An example of utilizing a functionalist or Durkheimian approach towards explaining the social phenomenon of modern terrorism is sometimes made by going back to Durkheims' original study of suicide in France and applying the different types of suicide types (Egoistic, Altruistic, Anomic) to similar forms of suicidal terrorism types.
  • In these theories, action which is self-regarding may be simply termed "egoistic".
  • Trouille's other common subjects were sex, as shown in "Lust" (1959), a portrait of the Marquis de Sade sitting in the foreground of a landscape decorated with a tableau of various perversions, and a "madly egoistic bravado" employed in a self-mocking style.
  • Charlotte Cecilia af Tibell born January 29, 1820, died April 16, 1901, was a Swedish author and hymn writer. She also wrote Christian short stories and feminist stories against egoistic men.
  • Despite the box office success, the writer of the film Bovi who also played the lead role had accused the director Niyi Akinmolayan of being egoistic, clout chaser and inferiority complex driven film director.

  • The film tells about a boy nicknamed Kibalchish, a person of strong moral values, who fights against the corrupt, manipulative, egoistic, impudent rich men.
  • In 1672, he published his major work, "De legibus naturae" ("On natural laws"), propounding utilitarianism and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas Hobbes.
  • Modern times commentators have remarked that even if this early play was still influenced by Eugène Marin Labiche, this portrayal of a small egoistic Bourgeois society is characteristic of Feydeau.
  • Appearances are entirely subordinated to the principle of sufficient reason. The egoistic individual who focuses his aims on his own interests has to deal with empirical laws as well as he can.
  • Durkheim explains that egoistic people overthink and reflect on everything.

  • Under negative state relief model, helping behaviours are motivated by one's egoistic desires.
  • Mandeville's ironic paradoxes are a criticism of the "amiable" idealism of Shaftesbury; their irony contrasts with the serious egoistic systems of Hobbes and Helvétius.
  • A love–hate relationship has been linked to the occurrence of emotional ambivalence in early childhood; to conflicting responses by different ego states within the same person; or to the inevitable co-existence of egoistic conflicts with the object of love.
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