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Meanings of self-interest in anglès
Concern for your own interests and welfare.
Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others.
Synonyms
Examples for "egoism"
Examples for "egoism"
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It was an ideal style to promote a policy of 'sacred egoism'.
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For us the future means egoism; further than that we cannot see.
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He hated them all; he felt himself crushed by this universal egoism.
4
The magnificent egoism of mankind in love struck her as distinctly diverting.
5
The girl found his incredible egoism at once amusing and extremely exasperating.
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A characteristic of pathological liars is undoubtedly a deep-set egocentrism, as Risch states.
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Meanwhile, the egocentrism gene now lying dormant is sure to spring back to life.
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It was not a dream that needed interpretation, not a misty plunge into oneiromancy or egocentrism.
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Individuals high in primary psychopathy exhibited cognitive egocentrism, whereas individuals low in primary psychopathy did not.
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Probably the force which caused this is egocentrism.
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We find self-concern and some concern for others, but not respect.
2
From her present bearing I arrived at some gauge of her self-concern, her self-respect.
3
Knowledge is possible when you can transcend self-concern.
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Of self-concern will tarnish my discerning need
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But suddenly he was preoccupied with self-concern.
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Pessimism, cynicism, and self-centeredness can take hold as the chances of marrying narrow.
2
Emphasize his egotism and self-centeredness as they start off for the golf links.
3
But with the self-centeredness of the body-obsessed, the scale in my mind never sleeps.
4
He is pulled out of self-centeredness, while shouting for another.
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Our carelessness, our self-centeredness, had wrecked those chocolates, made one fine mess of them all.
Usage of self-interest in anglès
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Working in mutual self-interest the world community would have achieved Sustainable Growth.
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Against our nature, self-interest has been given too high a moral priority.
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The WTO talks, it said, have been driven by power and self-interest.
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Global alliances can't be constructed on the basis of narrow national self-interest.
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Why are our MPs putting blatant self-interest ahead of the Brexit vote?
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Issues like hacking and trade should resolve over time through mutual self-interest.
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Let's say that every decision you've made has been based on self-interest.
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In a couple of answers he exposed the fallacy of enlightened self-interest.
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But this is yet another warning that economic self-interest trumps imaginary contracts.
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We have to attack this pandemic frontally in our own best self-interest.
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The basis of neutrality, gentlemen, is not indifference; it is not self-interest.
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The controlling force in politics, though not the only force, is self-interest.
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Even then, the process was erratic, with individual islanders' self-interest triggering conflicts.
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He seemed to be struggling with self-interest; great motive of human action.
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The result is a heady mix of paranoia, a predisposition to self-interest.
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She had never known anyone who was so completely oblivious to self-interest.
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Translations for self-interest
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Self-interest through the time