selfishness

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Recent Examples of selfishness Belly snaps at Taylor for her TikTok therapy and her selfishness, at which point Steven bursts in to defend Taylor and announce that Jere’s back. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Diamandis told me that our hardwired inclinations toward selfishness did trouble him sometimes, in the middle of the night. Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025 The players, in particular, face more punishing obstacles that only emphasize their selfishness. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025 Speaking on ground where the Indonesian military had buried Timorese freedom fighters, Francis warned against the intrusion of Western liberal values that encourage materialism and selfishness. Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for selfishness
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Noun
  • The promo references the famous —or, sometimes, infamous — farewells that contestants leave, penned in lipstick, on the vanity mirrors where queens do their makeup.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 17 Sep. 2025
  • Place a container near your vanity to hold earrings, rings, hairpins, and coins.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This is different from egoism and self-centeredness.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • In advance of the ceremony, the finalists were asked an essential question: Orwell claimed that prose writers have four ‘great motivations’ (putting aside the need to earn a living): sheer egoism; aesthetic enthusiasm; historical impulse; and political purpose.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • However, underneath that public bravado there is some truth in the fact that Britain has also characterized the visit that way, with the specific intention of appealing to Trump's ego in the hope of securing a better trade deal.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This question opens up powerful lessons on letting go of control, ego, needing to be right or doing it all alone.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Selfishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selfishness. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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