selfishness
Example Sentences
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He has little patience for selfishness or opportunism.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Or was his quest for power rooted in sheer petty selfishness?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Our selfishness, she continues, is the reason capitalism works.
From Salon ● Apr. 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
He was behaving with the beastly selfishness of Man, taking all he could get from one quarter, and then, when that was used, going to another.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
