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354 examples of Selfish in a sentence

He said, "Love is not selfish," he said, "Love does not mean counting how many times I say, 'I love you.'
Love is not selfish."
He was a very selfish meme.
"You would be selfish to have children."
And our human nature isn't just selfish, it's also compassionate.
They were holding signs that said "I am a man," and I found that astounding, because the phrase I grew up with wasn't "I am a man," it was "I am the man," and I was amazed at how it went from this collective statement during segregation to this seemingly selfish statement after integration.
They're talking about love and compassion and wisdom and enlightenment, but they are acting selfish and pathetic.
When you read this prayer, it sounds incredibly selfish, self-centered.
So, technology is selfish; technology is generous.
It's selfish, it's ugly, it's beneath us, and we really have to stop it.
Well, I have to admit, actually, that I also had a very selfish reason for building Mathematica: I wanted to use it myself, a bit like Galileo got to use his telescope 400 years ago.
And I suppose I'm a selfish environmentalist.
It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.
Are we these novelty-seeking, hedonistic, selfish individuals?
But these guys, essentially, were working in a fair system where they could do what they felt was right instead of what's selfish, what's quick, what's convenient, and to be able to do what we feel is right is a key ingredient for fairness, but it is also a great motivator.
At first, Segal tries to kill his mother because she's tough to live with and because he's a selfish guy.
All we know about Catherine Zeta-Jones character is she is obsessed with her world....nobody is allowed in and nobody challenges her world...that much is obvious....but the remaining characters all have their own dimensions that are really never explored or exposed....Aaron Eckhart's character had so much more to offer to the story but wasn't allowed, Abigail Breslin's character is so easy to understand that her performance comes across somewhat predictable and phony....in the end everything reverts back to the forced turbulent world of Catherine Zeta-Jones which the audience never totally falls for....honestly, her turbulent world is not much more than a portrayal of a selfish, self obsessed, spoiled lady who most people would not have much time or sympathy for in the real world.
The female characters came off the worst... reduced to spoiled, selfish airheads whose soul ambition was to run around in slip dresses and stilettos, and try to bag a man.
Spoiler warning : In effect the truth is that the older sister ( played by Diaz) is just a spoilt, selfish and shallow girl who took too many drugs.
I hated every character in this show - Miranda was slutty, selfish and mumbled miserably through the appalling dialogue, her sister was a total wimp, and this was the worst depiction of manic-depression I have ever seen.
Were his failures for other than his own selfish pursuits or were they in the name of real art, the movie might have had a chance.
While they have amassed a fortune over the years, they also have been selfish jerks.
Mr. bean is a selfish and rude character and one can only sympathies how pathetic he is.
To varying degrees they were each selfish and mean-spirited - or abused and damaged personalities who hadn't a clue about the spirit of Christmas (when this takes place!)
All the other comments have captured the essence of these two selfish, haggish, airheads perfectly.
Barney is very annoying, and very selfish.
What a BIG difference a selfish son of a gun makes.
It seems as if Mark's restless and selfish ghost 'possessed' the baby and uses him to encourage Stacy into committing suicide.
Instead of the violent and selfish Sade, he spends a lot of time carefully grooming a young virgin and slowly helps her to explore her own sensuality.
this is complete crap do not watch the main character is so f u c king concerned that the doc's bomb shelter is not big enough for everyone thus he claims the doc is playing god by saying who lives and who dies all during his 13itching, he kills people without thinking twice and beats people to near death also, the main character is an selfish little a$$ wipe as because of him, the doc who made the shelter died and his friend died. he also killed several no name cops the main character is just a f u c king dumb hillbilly s h i t head that's got no concept of the greater good also, this movie makes no f u c king sense.
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