selfishness
Example Sentences
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Until that inevitable conclusion, I’ll be rooting for Max Cady’s campaign against the Bowdens’ vortex of selfishness, which is entirely OK to do.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Or was his quest for power rooted in sheer petty selfishness?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
He wrote in his autobiography that they had split because she had "enough of the absentee husband, enough of the selfishness and the black moods".
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
Cerf “wasn’t afraid to tell her that he considered her philosophy of rational selfishness ‘abhorrent,’” Ms. Feldman writes, “but at the same time, he promised that if RH published her, ‘nobody’ would be a censor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
She knew she stood up a lot during games, but it wasn’t through selfishness.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
