Concern for your own interests and welfare.
The tendency to think of self and self-interest.
Синонимы
Examples for "selfishness "
Examples for "selfishness "
1 A disbelief in God results in selfishness , and in various moral catastrophes.
2 Russia stands for reaction; England for selfishness and perfidy; France for decadence.
3 The life that rejoices in solitude may be only rejoicing in selfishness .
4 The persecutions of the early Church originated partly in selfishness and superstition.
5 It needs much discipline and watchfulness; it excludes all self-will and selfishness .
1 Then it was that in the stupidity of his egotism he said:
2 Henceforth, you will no longer live in the selfish egotism of solitude.
3 Carew was all in all: his devouring egotism swallowed up historical association.
4 At least a bank manager's money is not so tainted by egotism .
5 Her shallowness soothed him; her inconsequent egotism helped him to forget himself.
1 It was an ideal style to promote a policy of 'sacred egoism ' .
2 For us the future means egoism ; further than that we cannot see.
3 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.
6 The old distinction between egoism and altruism is thus an artificial one.
7 We think of egoism and intellectualism as closely confined to the arts.
8 Yes, modesty; for egoism such as he had was not foolish pride.
9 They fittingly express the consummate egoism with which I was then afflicted.
10 My love had blinded my wisdom with the heavy mask of egoism .
11 This petrifaction of egoism would from amazedly to austerely refuse the petition.
12 For the robust egoism of Mr. Burns is largely a class pride.
13 The story was sentimental drivel, full of whimpering soft-heartedness and gushing egoism .
14 He could not help laughing at her egoism : and she laughed too.
15 The fierce, tender egoism of her love filled him with exultant pride.
16 With a child's egoism I seized only upon my own particular case.
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