How to Use selfish in a Sentence

selfish

adjective

• I wish he'd spend less time with his friends and more time with me. Am I being selfish?
• She's interested only in her own selfish concerns.
• For me, part of it was selfish because four-man is the coolest event.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, SELF, 2 Feb. 2022
• Since Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, there can be a selfish streak that runs through our veins this time of the year.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Give yourself the time and be selfish with your beauty.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2021
• Maybe that was a selfish assumption in the first place.
  — Vogue, 8 Apr. 2024
• So make the right decision on each shot and don’t be selfish.
  — Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 11 June 2024
• So not being a part of it, just from a selfish standpoint, is hard.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2024
• Olsen: And now the characters on the show, they are seen as greedy, selfish, cruel.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• To protect us against the selfish, the time for talking has ended.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2021
• This is all just rhetoric to convince ourselves to be selfish.
  — Josh Kun, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• The song takes on high taxes, abuse of welfare and selfish politicians.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2023
• Yes, that is selfish on my part, but anyone who has ever been on the wrong end in court gets it.
  — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
• Your friends had a choice, to fulfill their duties as gracious hosts, or be selfish and go to the game.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2021
• Rest assured that this is the best time in decades for employees to be selfish about their needs.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
• My sister didn’t want to hear that, and accused me of being selfish and lazy, and of leaving all the work to her.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2021
• The person who doesn't share his passion is very selfish.
  — Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The coach sometimes had to remind his star player to be more selfish and look for his shot.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• The Pope's suggestion that failing to have children is selfish is far from the truth.
  — Alistair Currie, CNN, 9 Jan. 2022
• From varieties that don’t need watering all the way to the most selfish of plants.
  — Caroleine James, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
• But there may be a selfish reason to vaccinate the world.
  — NBC News, 16 Dec. 2020
• Your selfish actions could cause the passenger to be carried out of the plane on a stretcher.
  — Christopher Elliott, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
• The intelligent way to be selfish is to work for the welfare of others.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
• There has never been a time in the world where Black women have been given the space to be seen as either selfish or weak.
  — Denayja Reese, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022
• That's why sometimes to be selfish was important to me.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
• Jen Yu is young, brave or reckless, free-minded and selfish.
  — Alex Biese, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2023
• The third goal of the era’s fixation on prehistory was the most selfish.
  — Stefanos Geroulanos, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024
• In some ways that's less selfish and less self regarding.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 14 Jan. 2022
• Rather than helping to move the needle on climate, their selfish actions are hurting the positive climate advocacy work that so many of us have been diligently working on for years.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
• Coppola seems to be saying that the artistically inclined and ambitious should be allowed to achieve their goals, without being stifled by the selfish concerns of old, rich men.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024