Example sentences for: selfishness

How can you use “selfishness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Realists preach humility and prudence, which idealists dismiss as complacency and selfishness.

  • In the liberal Guardian , foreign affairs columnist Martin Woollacott said Republican senators "sent out a dismal message--of American selfishness, American foolishness, and American readiness to put her own safety first, whatever the consequences for the rest of us."

  • Sheehy's faith in change and redemption reflects an Oprah-esque optimism about human malleability, whereas F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of an egotist whose selfishness wrecks her life and the lives of everyone around her reeks of dourness.

  • You may doubt that natural selection, a process that supposedly maximizes genetic selfishness, could fail so abjectly to do so.

  • On this view, Harris' mistake is not that he focuses too much on selfishness, but that he neglects it.


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