About The Word Selfish
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Selfish
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What's The Definition Of Selfish?
[adj] concerned chiefly or only with yourself; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman
Synonyms | Synonyms for Selfish: begrudging | egotistic | egotistical | envious | grudging | narcissistic | self-loving | self-seeking | self-serving | stingy | ungenerous Related Terms | Find terms related to Selfish: See Also | egoistic | inconsiderate Selfish In Webster's Dictionary \Self"ish\, a.
1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's
own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the
expense, of those of others.
They judge of things according to their own private
appetites and selfish passions. --Cudworth.
In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. --Keble.
2. (Ethics) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of
human action are derived from love of self.
Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers.
--Fleming.
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