selfishness in English

noun
1
the quality or condition of being selfish.
an act of pure selfishness

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1. Selfishness Took Over

2. Selfishness suffocates spiritual senses.

3. I find his selfishness repellent.

4. It is motivated by selfishness.

5. This behaviour illustrates your selfishness.

6. Autarchies: The Invention of Selfishness 208

7. Selfishness is vice. Selflessness is virtue.

8. Selfishness is a most detestable thing.

9. His judgment was clouded by selfishness.

10. Autarchies: The Invention of Selfishness

11. Love is the Antithesis of selfishness

12. ‘Arresting the Drift Toward Selfishness

13. Love is the antithesis of selfishness.

14. 13 His judgment was clouded by selfishness.

15. He is very personification of selfishness.

16. She is the very personification of selfishness.

17. His selfishness caused him to refuse my solicitation.

18. His selfishness was the root of trouble.

19. Selfishness is a detestable quality in anyone.

20. His selfishness really gets up my nose.

21. The so - called selflessness essentially is selfishness in nature!

22. Often the cause is not incompatibility but selfishness.

23. That generosity is a greater good than selfishness.

24. 4 Today’s world is ruled by greed and selfishness.

25. And thus he became the father of lies and selfishness.

26. Through Advantage, laziness, Adversarial roles, fear, hate, ego, selfishness

27. And indeed today’s world is saturated with selfishness and greed.

28. The theory had not taken into account human selfishness.

29. He regularly accuses his children of ingratitude and selfishness.

30. We must be mindful of the consequences of selfishness.

31. He was angered by the selfishness of the others.

32. Still, her proposal showed an admirable lack of selfishness.

33. I heard Mother remonstrating with Father about his selfishness.

34. Greed and selfishness seem to be dominating forces in human society.

35. She was angered by their selfishness and lack of concern.

36. She covers her selfishness with a varnish of good manners.

37. Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame

38. The wicked, on the other hand, are motivated by selfishness.

39. He was the victim of his own greed and selfishness.

40. Accidents tend to be caused by forms of selfishness, ignorance and carelessness.

41. Their first single was a hymn to selfishness called 'Looking After Number One'.

42. The arrogance and selfishness of different interest groups never ceases to amaze me.

43. Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it. Mason Cooley 

44. Friendships cannot endure if they are based on the sands of selfishness.

45. For one thing, we will never reap the bitter fruits of selfishness.

46. Selfishness, pride, and lack of love feed and aggravate lack of understanding.

47. Two powerful forces keep stoking the fires of corruption: selfishness and greed.

48. How can we use the Bible to check for traces of selfishness?

49. 14 We tend to think of hypochondria as a kind of selfishness.

50. Our best intentions are sometimes subverted by our natural tendency to selfishness.