selfishness

Example Sentences

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Who would want to have anything to do with grown-up people, with their larger selfishnesses, more developed self-seeking—robust jealousies and full-grown exactions and sophistications, when they had a beautiful little one like that?

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie

The things that they represented seemed to Hugh unreal and even contemptible, the shadows cast on the mist by the evil selfishnesses, the stupid appetites, the material hopes of men.

From Beside Still Waters by Benson, Arthur Christopher

I know he has little faults: impatiences, sensitivenesses, even little selfishnesses that are too trivial for him to notice.

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Shaw, Bernard

Perhaps they were really mated, their pettinesses and selfishnesses peculiarly complemental.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

George seems to have had some generous impulses now and then, and he probably did some kindly acts which could be set off against his many errors, imperfections, ignoble selfishnesses, and grave offences.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)