Meanings of become selfish in English

And politics, severed from religion, soon become selfish, and even devilish.

She used to fear sometimes, that in his love for making money, he would become selfish.

Men, when alone, become selfish, coarse, and reckless; their judgments become extravagant and their pursuits remorseless.

Let our homes be divorced from piety, and they will become selfish, sensual, unsatisfactory, and unhappy.

President Mary McAleese has rejected claims that Irish people have become selfish and preoccupied with consumerism.

Too many women have become selfish, like you.

I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

And I become selfish.

Let them become selfish, sensual, indolent, and dissipated, and soon these elements of iniquity will be transmitted to their offspring.

The farmers who had purchased their holdings were declared to have become selfish, and "as bad as the landlords."

The distant world rolls to his ear the voices of suffering fellow-men; and even his devotions, all lonely, become selfish and unsatisfying.

Can it then be a matter of surprise, that boys become selfish and vicious who are thus shut out from social converse?

Let me, therefore, crown Baedeker with an essayist's parsley, or an academic laurel, ere I too become selfish, forgetful, egoistical, and famous.

With astonishment they, who had known him all their lives, saw him in a few short weeks become selfish, greedy, unmannerly, even unclean.

The Neapolitans, in common with the inhabitants of all warm climates, are apt to become selfish and brutal in their dread of infectious disorders.

You could not get a better person to play that way - to not become selfish after the year he had a year ago.