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elfish

[ US /ˈɛɫfɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛlfɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. usually good-naturedly mischievous
    elvish tricks
    perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight

How To Use elfish In A Sentence

  • When trouble comes they behave selfishly and horribly.
  • Kira carried on walking, muttering angrily to herself about the absolute stupidity and selfishness of demons and mythical creatures.
  • 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
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