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How to use selfish in a sentence

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As they open up to each other about their woes, neither seems to recognise how monstrously selfish and shallow they appear.
On a more selfish note, am I going to be totally screwed because I don't even have a memorable catch-phrase?
For Scotland's only representative in the game's biggest tournament, the motives are purely selfish.
When it comes down to basics I'm no less selfish than anyone else I know and, thank heavens, I'm not foolish enough to think otherwise.
I wanted to drop that experience like a tot of honeyed mead into my subconscious, for my own, selfish poetic reasons.
Under the influence of Corthell, Laura's nervousness, selfish insecurity, and old love for theatric self-representation returns.
To do good deeds simply to obtain good karma would be to act from a selfish motive, and would not earn much merit.
In my heart I was already no longer the big angry man, but a stupid and selfish little boy who was on the point of committing matricide.
These protests were invariably portrayed by the various governments as selfish or sectionally motivated and as a disruption of patient care.
They both present themselves as selfish, self-centered individuals and they deserve one another.
His was not the kiss of a callow adolescent or a selfish boy bent on earning a notch on his bedpost for being the first to defrost her.
Normal polite, generous people seem to turn into very selfish, self-centred individuals once they light up a cigarette.
I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it.
Needless to say Bruce, being the selfish, self-centered person he is, abuses his newfound power to his own advantage.
If it does come, it would be triggered by the naked greed of a nation that is selfish and self-centred to the point of gross stupidity.
There are millions who never resort to violence or abuse others, who never are dishonest, selfish or greedy in their business dealings.
Even middle class is these days often used as a venomous synonym for smug, unadventurous or selfish.
Our children don't need to meet those selfish attitudes behind a steering wheel.
We hear too often about how today's young people are selfish and only interested in instant self-gratification.
Since no crime has been committed in the absence of a selfish motive, these are mostly open and shut cases.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Yes, she had been blindly selfish, and had failed to realize the momentousness of the great questions of the day.
Is incensed against him for his artful dealings with her, and for his selfish love.
His love was purely selfish, for he brushed aside her protest as if she had not spoken.
No one but an arrant, thoughtless, selfish cheechako will use a live growing tree against which to build a fire.
Till now it has seemed to them that we were clamouring only for selfish ends.
We cant afford it is the plea most frequently heard, and a despicably selfish one it is.
Do you tink, if she be one selfish beast like her husban, savanna love her so dear?
And in this regard I must say that men, as a general thing, are disgustingly selfish.
We have self-devotion in a cause, and an end to achieve which is not a selfish one.
But perhaps even the too frequent loss of books is an evil to be preferred to the egoistical meanness of the selfish collector.
We could at least enjoy the selfish satisfaction of faring better than our neighbours.
Since its owner has forcefulness and a power of selfish concentration, the voice is mostly magnetic and cold and strong.
They are so selfish and so good-for-nothing, with no thought for any one on earth but Number One.
As to the settlement of poor papa's affairs, my interest in that is not very selfish.
Then he knew that to tell Locke he did not care to go to the island and later to go by himself would have been sneakingly selfish.
The grave-digger of sorn, Ayrshire, was as selfish and as mean a sinner as ever handled mattock or carried mortcloth.
Perhaps if Vicky had been a boy she would have been spoilt and selfish too.
There are some, however, who impute a selfish desire for political power to his work.
As I read the passage, I could not but feel that the master was rather selfish and inconsiderate.
Do you know, my Gabrielle, I have discovered that Leonora is inordinately selfish?
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