How to Use selfishness in a Sentence

selfishness

noun

• In a litany of sins, Djokovic’s selfishness is supreme.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2022
• The reason for this, of course, is that politicians are far from alone in their selfishness.
  — Erika D. Smith Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• Some people tend to confuse the idea of putting themselves first with the essence of selfishness.
  — Karina Michel Feld, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
• Their hubris is just as scary, their predilection for selfishness and lying is just as scary as the stuff in the cult of Lumon.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2022
• As a world of hurt and selfishness swirls around them, the two find unexpected refuge in each other.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 May 2024
• The story wants to be about Batman's journey out of selfishness.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• That’s not the way of the world — that’s selfishness and capitalism in its greediest form.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• The hedonism and selfishness on view are an odd post-Covid subject.
  — Armond White, National Review, 26 Oct. 2022
• There’s still a way for the administration to steer away from what looks like First World selfishness.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 20 Aug. 2021
• The selfishness of that decision will, of course, come with some viewer debate.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Mar. 2023
• Selfless in that special way that somehow veers right back around to selfishness.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
• The pair make the case that Trump’s failure concerning the pandemic was selfishness.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• Sometimes, a little bit of selfishness is best and this song celebrates it.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
• This is in line with the phenomena of self-care and self-preservation as opposed to selfishness.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Years later, she’s flipped the page and is now playing a girl who has so little time that clingy angst on the part of her parents feels like selfishness incarnate.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
• There’s the selfishness, there’s the sort of loyalty and the unwavering support.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Self-care is a broad term, and sometimes people confuse self-care with self-indulgence, or an act of selfishness.
  — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2022
• As always, there is no shortage of those bemoaning the selfishness of others.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Nov. 2021
• Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice for our selfishness which is at the core of sin.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2022
• Writing a memoir is an act of both selfishness and selflessness.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• Fichte did not mean to justify solipsism or mere selfishness.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
• And then there are the sibling frictions of the universal sort: the question of sacrifice vs. selfishness — in this case, of who stayed in Uşak and was there for Mom, and who left to fulfill personal goals.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2023
• Ebenezer Scrooge has lived a contemptible life, but his selfishness hides that reality from him.
  — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
• Self-assertion can devolve into selfishness as the moon and Mars oppose.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• Expecting me to respect selfishness (my body, my choice) and the killing of those dividing, living cells goes, well, against life, in the vast majority of cases.
  — WSJ, 13 May 2022
• Vanishing from the vortex of bad news and screen time for two hours is productive and restorative in a way that a six-month hiatus isn’t—a pause for sanity, not a retreat for selfishness.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 28 July 2022
• Sleepiness, mental fog or hints of selfishness could be fatal for a $247 million juggernaut that has been not too often.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2023
• Money talks, but the cowardice and the selfishness of the legislators who are so scared to death of being primaried and losing their job, losing their power, losing their salary.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
• Kinds of Kindness, a triptych of stories starring the same ensemble of actors, is a sledgehammer to the face—a collection of musings on human selfishness and cruelty that feels like the return of Dogtooth Lanthimos.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024
• What was the combination of moral conviction, personal confidence and selfishness that propelled Biden, despite the risks, toward his decision to seek another term?
  — David Ignatius, Washington Post, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024