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Recent Examples of selfish During the show’s run, Kevin was sometimes considered selfish and immature, especially when compared to some of the gentler members of the Pearson clan. Toria Sheffield, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024 Those against say the bar for what constitutes familial trauma has become too low, and that some kids who cut off all contact are being selfish. Jeanette Tran, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024 People can be good and bad at the same time, selfish and selfless, depending on circumstances. Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024 What a selfish request and to keep pestering it for years is so rude. Erin Clack, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for selfish 
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  • And with Elon Musk playing a key role in this new administration, who knows in which direction his bombastic, egotistical whims may take AI development?
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • From this noble, if admittedly egotistical goal, come gaslighting, madness, war, self-mutilation, and murder.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • So begins possibly the most egocentric quest to humble oneself the stage has yet seen.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Some of the men have been described as egocentric, aggressive, and routinely unfaithful.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • There is a conversation happening in corporate America highlighting the damaging role that leaders with narcissistic tendencies play in creating toxic work environments.
    Jason Walker, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • That’s a hard pill to swallow for anyone, much less a slightly narcissistic reality star, and Mia predictably does not take kindly to the implication, ending the episode by running to the bathroom in tears after listing out all the ways her children are thriving.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • So, how do good leaders operate with confidence without coming across as arrogant or self-centered?
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • To be clear, sperm donation is, obviously, not an inherently evil or self-centered act.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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  • Zoey Johnson Zoey, the fashion-forward and occasionally self-absorbed eldest Johnson child.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 24 Sep. 2024
  • But the message is dark, self-absorbed and lacks empathy.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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  • The old tourist is essentially the boorish figure from the headlines—solipsistic, oriented toward the self, someone who superimposes their fantasies onto a place and then is outraged when their expectations aren’t met.
    Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 30 June 2024
  • Jude’s cynical social perceptions and teasing sympathy toward strivers like Angela and her common-man subjects surpass the efforts of all his clueless filmmaking contemporaries, such as Wes Anderson, who packs whimsy into his Roald Dahl anthology only to create solipsistic distraction.
    Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024
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  • A little self-involved, but the check clears either way.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Don’t be too proud to accept help or too self-involved to provide it in return.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 30 July 2024
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  • The potential for self-serving bias and belief bias are evident.
    Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • For officials in China and Russia, de facto adversaries of the United States, the Iraq War is an easy precedent to put forward to shoot down Washington’s talking points, no matter how self-serving and cynical that may be.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023

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“Selfish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selfish. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.

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