selfishness
Example Sentences
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Or was his quest for power rooted in sheer petty selfishness?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Defending his government's policy, Sanchez said the "world does not need more selfishness or more fear. What it needs are countries that show solidarity and want to step forward."
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
Our selfishness, she continues, is the reason capitalism works.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 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
The effect of such an education was that he had grown up without any of the useful accomplishments for living—without malice, vanity, suspicion, cruelty, and the commoner forms of selfishness.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
