selfishness

Example Sentences

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For the present-day scenes, her daughter is very much an adult but has still not lost the selfishness of children who refuse to see their female parent as a whole person.

From Salon

A very large, militant chunk of the GOP electorate is anti-mask, anti-vaccine and obsessed with a version of liberty that is not much more than childish, churlish selfishness.

From Seattle Times

"A Teacher" serves as a portrait of the selfishness of adult abusers and long-term harms of predatory student-teacher relationships on the victim.

From Salon

If selfishness defines the electorate or the elected, democracies, including ours, will inevitably perish.

From Seattle Times

Meanwhile, as the early promise of a coronavirus-free summer has given way to new mask mandates and other restrictions, public hostility toward vaccine holdouts has spurred accusations of political grandstanding, ignorance and selfishness.

From Washington Post