selfish

How To Use selfish 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
• He is one of a platoon of French intellectuals praising the game as a noble art compared with the selfish showmanship of football. Times, Sunday Times