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selfish egocentric egoistic egoistical self-centered

Concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others WordNet 3.0

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Concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights WordNet 3.0

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights - Maria Weston Chapman Open English WordNet

As the crying baby, we express purely the self-serving thoughts that arise in our minds. Open English WordNet

We're asked to see Rachel as this spoilt, self-centred woman but the rest of them are just as bad, if not worse. - New Statesman, 9/12/2014, Vol. 143 Issue 5227, p46-49. Open English WordNet

What I can't believe is that people are so stupid and self-centered that they think they HAVE to comment on things they don't like. Open English WordNet

I will never forgive her for her egocentric and shameful conduct towards Gilliatt Open English WordNet

However, because of their strong-minded nature, they are often perceived as difficult and egoistical individuals. Open English WordNet

The merely egoistic satisfactions of fame are easily nullified - George Eliot's Exploration of Art and Influence after Middlemarch - Wendy S Williams Open English WordNet

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