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Definition of "alter-ego" []

  • Alternative spelling of alter ego. (noun)

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Use "alter-ego" in a sentence
  • "Literature's most unreliable narrator, Humbert Humbert, projects his distorted view of Lolita as sadistically refusing to love him, which the prepubescent Margaux grotesquely echoes by acting out a whorish, sexually punishing alter-ego, Nina."
  • "Peter Parker and his alter-ego have conquered New York in the funny pages, on the silver screen and even the small screen, but come 2010 he is set to take Broadway by storm."
  • "After her alter-ego was exposed by FITS in August of 2009, Maguire resigned her post on the state board and briefly fled to Canada."