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excessive interest in oneself
the only reason for constantly ignoring everyone else's problems is selfishness
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Recent Examples of selfishness
Not quite a love story, theirs — with its paired selfishness — is a common, realist tragedy.
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Armond White, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024
Was all this actually vanity and delusion, selfishness masquerading as morality?
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The history of the United States is a history of selfishness.
—K. Ward Cummings, Baltimore Sun, 10 Nov. 2024
More successfully, Teeth plays with the trope of the helpful gay best friend (an excellent Jared Loftin, sweet then sinister), who offers to help Dawn learn how to retract her teeth but then betrays her in his own act of selfishness.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024
Was all this actually vanity and delusion, selfishness masquerading as morality?
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The history of the United States is a history of selfishness.
—K. Ward Cummings, Baltimore Sun, 10 Nov. 2024
More successfully, Teeth plays with the trope of the helpful gay best friend (an excellent Jared Loftin, sweet then sinister), who offers to help Dawn learn how to retract her teeth but then betrays her in his own act of selfishness.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for selfishness
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Here, garland drapes over each medicine cabinet and fills a small bowl on the vanity top, adding punches of color and festivity without being too literal.Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024
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The bathroom itself looks a lot like its counterpart and has a shower, a small vanity sink, and a flushing toilet, as well as some more storage.Adam Williams, New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2024
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Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
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Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information, Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
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The mentors who called you out, the lessons that battered your ego.Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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After surviving the Holocaust, a Hungarian Jewish architect (Adrien Brody) comes to America and is commissioned by an industrialist (Guy Pearce) to build a community center, while trying to bring his wife (Felicity Jones) over from Europe and weathering his own ego and vices.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Selfishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selfishness. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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