[
US
/ˈɛɫfɪʃ/
]
[ UK /ˈɛlfɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛlfɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
usually good-naturedly mischievous
elvish tricks
perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight
How To Use elfish In A Sentence
- When I do get in a lather, it's never my fault: it's the cyclists and pedestrians who are selfish and inconsiderate, not me.
- I just hadn't realised that so many straight men could be so selfish and unloving towards their offspring.
- In addition to receiving the best education that the South could offer blacks at that time, Ella inherited a powerful sense of service that made her civil rights efforts extraordinarily unselfish and untiring.
- You can be morally unimpeachable for entirely selfish reasons. Times, Sunday Times
- Theirs is a consummately selfish act, no less than a low-life betrayal of civilization.
- Machiavelli was a chief target of the philoso - phes because he preached an amoralistic selfishness which promoted despotic arbitrariness. MACHIAVELLISM
- As you know, Bubba, I have no way to ever repay you for your unselfish gift of life you so eagerly gave to me. All I can offer to you is my undying love, my respect, my gratitude and my humble heart.
- Both acts are born of reckless selfishness and crass stupidity and both should be condemned. The Sun
- Each has written compellingly on this subject, yet each has been unselfishly and unfailingly supportive as we explored terrain that they already knew well. American Grace
- From the cooler water morwong, to a splendid angelfish and the brightly speckled hawkfish, this oceanic haven in the middle of a vast sea vibrates to the rhythm of the Pacific's currents.