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selfish |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Selfish \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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 [ant: {unselfish}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: SELFISH, adj Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others
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