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What (who) is selfish - definition
PLACING CONCERN WITH ONESELF ABOVE THE INTERESTS OF OTHERS
Selfish; Egotestical; Self serving; Self-serving
selfish
¦ adjective concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure at the expense of consideration for others.
Derivatives
selfishly adverb
selfishness noun
Selfish
·adj Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.
II. Selfish ·adj 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.
selfish
If you say that someone is selfish, you mean that he or she cares only about himself or herself, and not about other people.
I think I've been very selfish. I've been mainly concerned with myself.
...the selfish interests of a few people.
ADJ [disapproval]
• selfishly
Cabinet Ministers are selfishly pursuing their own vested interests.
ADV: usu ADV with v
• selfishness
The arrogance and selfishness of different interest groups never ceases to amaze me.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
Wikipedia
Selfishness
Selfishness is being concerned excessively or exclusively, for oneself or one's own advantage, pleasure, or welfare, regardless of others.
Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness; and has also been contrasted (as by C. S. Lewis) with self-centeredness.
Examples of use of selfish
1. Don‘t hold your breath. – Thai, Manchester Selfish, selfish parents!
2. "And if I‘m called selfish for that, then yes I‘m selfish.
3. "They are selfish, inconsiderate cowards," she said.
4. Tensions flare between the considerate and selfish.
5. The UKs decision is selfish imperialism, Mr McKinnon said yesterday.