egotistical
/ˌi.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪk.(ə)l/ adjective C2- Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
- Believing oneself to be better and more important than others due to one's position, popularity, wealth, appearance, etc.
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The elder prisoner was one of those persons whose conversation, like that of all who have experienced many trials, contained many useful and important hints as well as sound information; but it was never egotistical, for the unfortunate man never alluded to his own sorrows.
A sailor was rubbing his limbs with a woollen cloth; another, whom he recognized as the one who had cried out “Courage!” held a gourd full of rum to his mouth; while the third, an old sailor, at once the pilot and captain, looked on with that egotistical pity men feel for a misfortune that they have escaped yesterday, and which may overtake them tomorrow.
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