selfishness
Example Sentences
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Or was his quest for power rooted in sheer petty selfishness?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
"This is a spiritual battle. Between selfishness and service. Between greed and greatness," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 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
In a town — and a time — of selfishness and self-serving, Reiner was one of the good guys, always fighting, both through his films and his politics, to make the world kinder and closer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Everything—our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles—is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed, and envy, which are just forms of selfishness.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
