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self·ish·ness

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  1. selfishnessnoun

    stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

    Antonyms:
    unselfishness

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  1. selfishnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    undue love of self, self-interest, private interest, illiberality, meanness

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How to use selfishness in a sentence?

  1. Jim Justice:

    Who won tonight was absolutely hands down the people — the people won, and who lost? Who lost unequivocally? Selfishness lost.

  2. Lyndon B. Johnson:

    What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

  3. Mike Huckabee:

    Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.

  4. Albert Camus:

    I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

  5. John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism:

    Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.


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