Concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others.
1 They form the connecting links between the selfish and the social passions.
2 For life insurance, in general, is not personally selfish in its motive.
3 The pleasure here intended is not the selfish pleasure of the individual.
4 The selfish rage which had consumed Red Perris broke out in words.
5 Man is naturally selfish ; the instinct of self-preservation requires it of him.
6 The sorest trial of all was the selfish coldness of the West.
7 It is a spirit contracted in its views, selfish in its objects.
8 All selfish possession of the gifts which Christ bestows is grave sin.
9 I was really feeling very selfish and worldly; and anything but spiritual.
10 This life of ours in the desert has made me desperately selfish .
11 Nor do I store the rice in a granary for selfish greed.
12 She was probably selfish in the common sense of that ill-used word.
13 This suffering may be selfish , or be merged in a general sorrow.
14 Florence gazed at him a moment in bitter, in almost selfish penitence.
15 I think the griefs of the rich are mostly imaginary and selfish .
16 The selfish and egoistical life breeds always the vapid and vacuous heart.
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