selfishly

adverb

self·ish·ly ˈsel-fish-lē

: in a selfish way

acting/behaving selfishly

… he selfishly hogged attention for his injury …—

Louise Erdrich

He finds support for his intuition from game theory, which says that if everyone in a game acts selfishly, everyone suffers.—

Gina Kolata

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So, selfishly, visiting the attraction during the day gave me the opportunity to appreciate all the work Stross and his team put in to curating the props, costuming and sets featured in the haunt. —

Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2024 Participants in experiments saw moral objectors as selfishly advocating for a personal goal at the expense of others. —

Timothy Kundro, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 To live intelligently selfishly is to understand that our well-being is linked with the well-being of others. —

Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024 Who wants a governor who caves so easily to pressure and selfishly chooses to expand her suburban vote rather than serve the ten million New Yorkers who would have benefited from the program? —

Alex Matthiessen, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for selfishly