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  1. selfishnessnoun

    stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

    Antonyms:
    unselfishness

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  1. selfishnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    undue love of self, self-interest, private interest, illiberality, meanness

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How to use selfishness in a sentence?

  1. John Kenneth Galbraith:

    The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

  2. Justice Calo Reign:

    The purpose of #wealth is to #heal and not to #hoard. In your selfishness with your wealth you renounce your claim to it.

  3. Albert Camus:

    I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

  4. Kevin Paffrath:

    There is no Arnold on the ballot this time -- there's nobody with that broad love that Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger had when Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger went in, i think the 2003 election is their excuse, but it's mostly motivated out of selfishness to keep Gavin Newsom.

  5. Robert A. Heinlein:

    The greatest productive force is human selfishness.


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