Selfishness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SELFISHNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being selfish
• the quality or state of being selfish; lack of consideration for other people
• The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one\'s own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.
• stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

Words related to SELFISHNESS

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Words that contain SELFISHNESS

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How to use SELFISHNESS in a sentence

• Are we selfish? We shall call out selfishness in others.
• Many a man has found himself when he gets a wife, and in the caring for his children has thrown off the shackels of selfishness.
• Wealth, honor, and power will produce luxury, pride, and selfishness.
• This outrageous parental selfishness and tyranny, so detrimental to the interests of the human race, was gradually mitigated as civilization progressed in Europe.
• It may be further objected, that many who begin with youthful enthusiasm for everything noble, as they advance in years sink into indolence and selfishness.
• Next to selfishness, the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory, is want of mental cultivation.
• But the youth of this realm need not at present be taught the doctrine of selfishness.
• Then, again, in the world how much seems to go by selfishness.
• They revealed very little to him, except the unmitigated selfishness of the writer.
• That same old spirit of selfishness that tempted Eve in the garden of Eden has gone through the world like a creeping, wily serpent ever since.
• He had been hurt by the words, but by a kind of unconscious selfishness his pain helped him to do what he believed to be his duty.
• Selfishness Search history, my boy, and see What petty selfishness has done.
• Even her selfishness was the selfishness of a spoiled child.
• It was a dastardly exhibition of selfishness, but there are people in the world who will sell their own souls for profit.
• The needle in the moral compass is deflected by selfishness or false teaching.
• Selfishness is the fundamental cause of all sin, it is the thing that all great religions, all worthy philosophies, have struck at.
• The clergy exhibited the same selfishness that had characterized their action for five-and-twenty years.
• The unpopularity of the English increased daily, and the ambition and selfishness of Great Britain were the constant themes of the popular press.
• A man who lets his wild fancies free, and gives rein to his anger and selfishness, is going to become the victim of his own mind.
• Indeed, we have no answer to give to that kind of selfishness.
• The zero of selfishness would have been the atmosphere of his home.
• It is a hard awakening for a trusting boy, when he first comes in contact with selfishness and corruption.
• But though she did not speak, Katharine had an uneasy sense that silence on her part was selfishness.
• An absorbing love might come, but love is by turns a sweet and anxious selfishness, while friendship is a broad-spread generosity.
• All my selfishness would come to the front if that were demanded of me.

Similar words containing SELFISHNES without suffix s

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