Words similar to selfishness

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.
A profile condemns the coach-choking (and uncoachable) Latrell Sprewell for crushing the New York Knicks' NBA championship hopes: His nihilism and selfishness have sapped his teammates' will to win.
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.
In his announcement address, as in previous speeches, he framed domestic issues in terms of "honor," "courage," "strength," "faith," "selfishness," "honesty," and "respect."