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selfish

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These the majority of the community is selfish, doesn't contribute back, doesn't even give credit to most of the tools behind their UIs.

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Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.

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adjective

Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.

adjective

Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.

adjective

(video games) Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for selfish.

adjective

(biology) Related to or equivalent to a selfish gene; best understood as existing to preserve and replicate itself in competition with other entities at the same level of existence, rather than at the level of the individual or population containing it.

See also: narcissistic, self-serving, egotistical, grudging, envious

Example sentences

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These the majority of the community is selfish, doesn't contribute back, doesn't even give credit to most of the tools behind their UIs.

2

The simple fact is that almost everything that involves multiple people with selfish interests is at least somewhat political.

3

It's very convenient for people who are being selfish or making things worse to agree with such crackpot ideas.

4

You have fallen into the trap of thinking this business could reach critical mass while failing to notice that the person at the helm is selfish, greedy, controlling, and spiteful.

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Everyone in every other industry is a mere sociopath exploiting customers for their own selfish gains.

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So you get a lot of rude, selfish behavior like cutting in line, lack of queueing, general lack of courtesy.

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All of us make selfish individual decisions, but the (probabilistic) fitness function is largely determined by large-scale, emergent properties of the system.

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I always thought women were just people like me, making selfish individual decisions to maximize their money/lifestyle/career enjoyment.

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Any other conclusion is, to my mind, selfish and antithetical to the society I want to live in.

10

I think he's a great professor for sure and don't think that he's been 'selfish' or anything like that.

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That said, I'm not a vegetarian, and I care more about my selfish desires than what is right or wrong.

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We're so caught up in our own selfish bubbles, we're failing to consider those around us.

Quote examples

1

I suggest you read "The Selfish Gene." The inherent competition in evolution is not among individuals, it is among alleles.

2

Price said to her, but from her reaction ("He treated me as if I was being selfish and only thinking about myself") I would guess she got something close to "how does someone else earning more money hurt you?"

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use selfish in a sentence?

These the majority of the community is selfish, doesn't contribute back, doesn't even give credit to most of the tools behind their UIs.

What does selfish mean?

Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.

What part of speech is selfish?

selfish is commonly used as adjective.