adjective
definition
Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
definition
Having regard for oneself above others’ well-being.
Examples of selfish in a Sentence
You both made selfish choices.
It was selfish enough to be embarrassing.
He never would have thought Lori could be so selfish and greedy.
It was a selfish thought, showing no appreciation for everything they had done.
Quite as much must be ascribed to the want of faith in the legislatures of states and cities, which are deemed tao liable to be influenced by selfish corporations.
Holding this back is the most incredibly selfish act I've ever seen.
It's kinda selfish, don't you think?
At bottom the man was frivolous, profoundly selfish, unstable, and utterly incapable of consistency or application.
The selfish side of me wants to tell you to get away from him, because I want him to suffer.
Taran had never known how selfish his own anger was.
You've always been a selfish creature, Jule.
If you knew the one I plan on pushing you down—and I will manipulate the fate of a selfish creature like you—you'd be running out of here screaming.
There seems no reason to doubt that Lentulus was mainly inspired by selfish motives, and hoped to find in civil war an opportunity for his own aggrandizement.
I can't share what I see with anyone else and it not only reeks of voyeurism but feels selfish to me.
The war dragged on with varying success, until the severe defeat of the allies at Marsiglia and their selfish neglect of Victor's interests induced him to open negotiations with France once more.
Rhyn deserves better. I think I got what was coming to me for being as selfish as my bitchy sister.
They are for the most part, when left to their own resources, cruel, unjust, selfish and improvident.
He was in no mood to argue against Claire Quincy's selfish interests in preserving the strained moral reputation of the long-dead ancestor.
She had gone home to sulk causing, in her mind, Fred to suffer hours of grief and agony from her selfish inaction.
They're all selfish bastards.
Of course, he chose two of the most selfish people she knew.
It probably means things are working out with her mother and I shouldn't think selfish thoughts.
The issue of this conflict was determined less by any intrinsic superiority on the part of her enemies than by the blunders committed by a people unable to carry out a consistent foreign policy on its own initiative, and served since Pericles by none but selfish or short-sighted advisers.
By Bishop Schreuder he was described as " an able man, but for cold, selfish pride, cruelty and untruthfulness worse than any of his predecessors."
There is no greater crime in the cosmos than to deliberately indoctrinate young trusting minds with false teachings for selfish ends.
It was like my God shutting a door on me, I have never felt so lost, due to my own selfish actions.
They are blocking the truth solely for selfish reasons and they will suffer remorse when they pass over.
At the beginning, she appeared almost selfish (I felt ).
You disgust me because your aims are entirely self-serving and selfish.
A day to God's glory far surpasses a lifetime to selfish pleasures.
No matter how badly Kris had hurt him, it hadn.t been for a selfish cause like Sasha.s.
You can't be so selfish.
Frederick's first policy was one of selfish abstention, and from 1793 until 1796, when he concluded a definite treaty of neutrality with France, he limited his contribution to the war to the bare contingent due from him as a prince of the Empire.
Perhaps I'm just being selfish - I love debate and I hate seeing interesting threads hijacked by personal politics.
And that's not only incredibly selfish, it's downright irresponsible.
I have only just learned there is more than my selfish anger that matters.
Never in the history of colonization has a mother country pursued so relentlessly a policy more selfish and short-sighted.
These powers of the mind, or "siddhi," should never be sought for their own sake, or be used for selfish purposes.
Soon afta, he complained that I was bein ' selfish, an ' that I wouldn't make sacrifices fa him.
Feeling rather foolish at the selfish nature of my grief I stood to inspect the panel.
The emphasis has sadly shifted from public service to selfish greed.
He too was determined to find some way of controlling the forces of selfish individualism.
Work for God must be without any selfish motive or the crown will slip from the hand.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
It is also less selfish than borrowing your boyfriend's shaver.
Noble, wretched, magnanimous, heartless, petty, generous, self-sacrificing, and selfish.
Oddly enough the selfish prudence of Sigismund's rapacious consort, Queen Bona, did more for the national defence than the Polish state could do.
About this time he was appointed to a canonry in Utrecht and to another in Aix-la-Chapelle, and the life of the brilliant young scholar was rapidly becoming luxurious, secular and selfish, when a great spiritual change passed over him which resulted in a final renunciation of every worldly enjoyment.
The " selfish gene " operating in humans has, of course, caused the greatest distress among many readers.
Firstly, a selfish hegemony will also be a challenged hegemony.