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Definition of selfish in English: selfishadjective ˈsɛlfɪʃˈsɛlfɪʃ (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure. I joined them for selfish reasons Example sentencesExamples - Try to protest that the government is ruining your health with its selfish pleasures and see how far you get!
- Call me selfish, but I wanted to leave my mark on a true original.
- The consumer is encouraged to feel that the transaction is less selfish, on both sides, than normal.
- They said society believed that they did a lucrative job for purely selfish reasons.
- I suppose one could say that we are selfish in this way.
- I realized then that what I had said sounded incredibly selfish, yet I did not speak up.
- Although he had to admit it seemed selfish, he couldn't tell her.
- My selfish desires had led me into betraying this withdrawn and deeply religious family.
- She was also starting to think that maybe she was a bit too selfish towards him.
- She felt a bit envious momentarily before she brushed it off, feeling selfish.
- In my last conversation with my Grandmother before she died she called me selfish.
- His determination and the will to win make him selfish on the ice.
- My reason for being pro-choice is kind of selfish in a way.
- I gave a bittersweet sigh and tried not to feel selfish about the situation.
- Sometimes I feel too selfish, and other times I feel too selfless.
- Since no crime has been committed in the absence of a selfish motive, these are mostly open and shut cases.
- Her girls, she says, are less selfish after their week away.
- When I had the second, I realised it was a bit selfish.
- To do good deeds simply to obtain good karma would be to act from a selfish motive, and would not earn much merit.
- For Scotland's only representative in the game's biggest tournament, the motives are purely selfish.
Synonyms egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, egomaniacal, self-centred, self-regarding, self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-seeking, self-serving, wrapped up in oneself, inward-looking, introverted, self-loving inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking, uncaring, heedless, unmindful, regardless, insensitive, tactless, uncharitable, unkind mean, miserly, grasping, greedy, mercenary, money-grubbing, acquisitive, opportunistic, out for what one can get informal looking after number one, on the make
Definition of selfish in US English: selfishadjectiveˈsɛlfɪʃˈselfiSH (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure. I joined them for selfish reasons Example sentencesExamples - For Scotland's only representative in the game's biggest tournament, the motives are purely selfish.
- To do good deeds simply to obtain good karma would be to act from a selfish motive, and would not earn much merit.
- I suppose one could say that we are selfish in this way.
- I gave a bittersweet sigh and tried not to feel selfish about the situation.
- Since no crime has been committed in the absence of a selfish motive, these are mostly open and shut cases.
- When I had the second, I realised it was a bit selfish.
- Sometimes I feel too selfish, and other times I feel too selfless.
- Although he had to admit it seemed selfish, he couldn't tell her.
- My selfish desires had led me into betraying this withdrawn and deeply religious family.
- She felt a bit envious momentarily before she brushed it off, feeling selfish.
- His determination and the will to win make him selfish on the ice.
- Call me selfish, but I wanted to leave my mark on a true original.
- In my last conversation with my Grandmother before she died she called me selfish.
- I realized then that what I had said sounded incredibly selfish, yet I did not speak up.
- My reason for being pro-choice is kind of selfish in a way.
- The consumer is encouraged to feel that the transaction is less selfish, on both sides, than normal.
- They said society believed that they did a lucrative job for purely selfish reasons.
- She was also starting to think that maybe she was a bit too selfish towards him.
- Try to protest that the government is ruining your health with its selfish pleasures and see how far you get!
- Her girls, she says, are less selfish after their week away.
Synonyms egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, egomaniacal, self-centred, self-regarding, self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-seeking, self-serving, wrapped up in oneself, inward-looking, introverted, self-loving
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