How To Use Selfishly In A Sentence

  • Cabinet Ministers are selfishly pursuing their own vested interests.
  • Selfishly speaking, I am almost tempted to let this state of affairs pass unremarked.
  • However, some insects selfishly lay their own eggs in empty cells rather than taking care of the queen's eggs.
  • Why are we so inconsistent, so irrational, so illogical and so selfishly shortsighted?
  • Inbreds like yourself have to be greedy and live life as selfishly as possible because your souls were condemned from the moment your mothers engaged in incestuous copulation with their fathers, uncles and brothers. Think Progress » Cheney Casts Deciding Vote to Pass Budget That Hammers the Poor
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  • While some visitors speak enthusiastically of their visit here many of the residents prefer to keep rather tight-lipped perhaps wishing not to disturb the balance that keeps this place somewhat of a private paradise they selfishly wish to keep to themselves. Pedestrian Friendly?
  • The danger is that we can become selfishly myopic, turning our hearts toward home but our backs to the needs of the world. Christianity Today
  • The drive to accumulate can be used to better human existence, not just selfishly, for conspicuous over consumption, self-indulgence or exhibitionism.
  • Even if we look at the situation selfishly, we will see that Britain's sterling balance situation is a big factor in hindering a return to convertibility of dollars and sterling, which is affecting us very directly. Business Action
  • Two, that conservatives 'facility in articulation arises from their individual propensity to actually study-out the issues – they are individualists who selfishly relish responsibiltiy for their own thoughts and actions – and therefore can actually speak to the issues. Liberal bloggers admit conservatives have upper hand on Twitter
  • They'll stop dead on the street to wrestle with their opening mechanisms, standing exactly where you're trying to stand, selfishly blocking your way and wielding their brolly like an offensive weapon.
  • Selfishly, he abandoned the car in the middle of the road, holding up all the traffic behind him.
  • I hoped I hadn't kept her from something by selfishly making her talk with me tonight instead of on Friday.
  • It is with the same level of fervency that I'm told in the media that the postmodernist EU is all sweetness and light while the US acts ‘selfishly’ or as a ‘bully boy’.
  • In some situations it makes good sense, at least in the short term, to use violence and to behave selfishly, fearfully or vaingloriously.
  • Selfishly speaking, I am almost tempted to let this state of affairs pass unremarked.
  • Ten minutes later Darron Gibson's long pass out of defence freed substitute Berbatov, and he unselfishly squared the ball across for Rooney to side-foot into an open net. BBC News - Home
  • Will they see us as greedy consumers, selfishly gobbling up the world's resources.
  • The country is as racist as it ever was, and the white population is still selfishly, even pathologically, venting its anger at and fashioning its scapegoats from the least among us -- African-Americans. Whatever Happened to Integration?
  • Some insects selfishly lay their own eggs in empty cells rather than taking care of the queen's eggs.
  • After the inspection the mayor told the press that he agreed there were some rapacious shop and bar owners in both streets that have selfishly put up their signboards, tables, and chairs in the public zones and footpaths.
  • he acted unselfishly when he helped her get the promotion
  • I have never known him to behave other than selfishly.
  • They also often act more selfishly and unheroically than the more likable characters.
  • Those of you who truly love your spouse and children would unselfishly lay your linedeath.
  • So the social contract is selfishly motivated; it comes about through our rational ability to perceive a personal advantage from it.
  • Selfishly I assured myself with the knowledge that Toby had created his own mess in the past, and that if my plan was to miscarry, it would simply be a nasty case of karma.
  • Will the West cling to the idea of universal worth while selfishly consuming Arab oil wealth and closing its borders to Arabs?
  • It's unreasonable to expect your child to behave in a caring way if you behave selfishly.
  • Lying to Brussels about the real facts of their economic viability so that the country could enter the EU; successive prime ministers and their hundreds of ministers selfishly tampering with EU funds, a virulent system of nepotism; a word-indulgent politics that camouflages truths... suddenly I felt Athena's fuming breath on my face and her stern gaze froze me. Anthony Strano: Reflections in Athens
  • At least, he had saved his country from foolish fratricide by unselfishly renouncing the presidency.
  • Will the West cling to the idea of universal worth while selfishly consuming Arab oil wealth and closing its borders to Arabs?
  • It may be that, so placed, you - being the noble - minded paragon that you are - would behave unselfishly.
  • I have never known him to behave any other than selfishly.
  • He is right to point out that our response to national disasters is often selfishly inappropriate.
  • Their suffering is generally caused by adults: a parent has died, or run off, or otherwise acted irresponsibly, drunkenly, selfishly, dissolutely.
  • Actually, I can, given the stuff that dolts selfishly dump on the streets of my neighborhood.
  • I have never known him behave other than selfishly.
  • Others will selfishly hog a space all day and not give fellow drivers a fair chance to park conveniently.
  • When trouble comes they behave selfishly and horribly.
  • They have been wagered by gamblers like Donna (who won $900 at a casino in Redding, Calif.) and unselfishly given to charities.
  • For a moment he selfishly planned not to warn her.
  • His work was all-consuming, often at the expense of those he loved, and he pursued his ambitions ruthlessly and selfishly.
  • During the communal drug culture of the 1960s, 'to bogart' meant to selfishly smoke a joint without sharing.
  • It's unreasonable to expect your child to behave in a caring way if you behave selfishly.
  • Unions that back them are selfishly using the political process to enrich themselves at others' expense.
  • So the social contract is selfishly motivated; it comes about through our rational ability to perceive a personal advantage from it.
  • This strays from the other stories in that Black Jack acts unselfishly at first, as a force to teach a needed lesson. Black Jack Book 5 » Manga Worth Reading
  • 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
  • I have never known him behave other than selfishly.
  • Are parents acting selfishly and should they think much harder about the ramifications of despatching a sick child to school? Who sends their sick child to school?
  • I have never known him behave other than selfishly.
  • As the details were revealed, I thought of our soldiers and their families ..so brave, yet going though a tragic time right now ... and yet so selfishly, so much wanting to hold onto my son. Archive 2008-08-01
  • Selfishly, I have to admit that my fourth of fifth thought, after hearing the lamentable news, was regret that it is unlikely he will be well enough soon enough to campaign for John Kerry.
  • Then you think about those people on the roads who selfishly block junctions, who cut you up at a roundabout, who use filter lanes to queue jump.
  • There are many believers of Christ but I would argue that there are few followers of Christ; for to follow is to consider your neighbor (i.e., your fellow human being) and give unselfishly to those in need. Obama considering major health care speech
  • I like unexaggerated intercourse; it is not my way to overpower with amorous epithets, any more than to worry with selfishly importunate caresses. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Such exhortations are the railings of hypocrites who selfishly skewer non-believers with the power they all-the-time possess.
  • He published by subscription a small edition of his father's works in 1747, but selfishly and unfilially omitted several of the best of them.
  • Please don't sacrifice our children's access for tomorrow by selfishly breaking the law today.
  • Ironically, the point Williams was railing against was that all human behavior is selfishly motivated.
  • He's best described as a mercurial person, so there's a chance he might yet change his mind -- selfishly, I hope he does -- but his decision is consistent with the person he is and was and always will be. Joaquin Phoenix Retires
  • Will the West cling to the idea of universal worth while selfishly consuming Arab oil wealth and closing its borders to Arabs?

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