Selfishly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SELFISHLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
ADVERB:
• SELFISH, concerned only with oneself
• in an egotistical manner
• with a lack of consideration for other people due to concern with one's own personal profit or pleasure

Words related to SELFISHLY

selfish13

Words that contain SELFISHLY

unselfishly20

How to use SELFISHLY in a sentence

• The Greeks had reached that stage of individual culture where they were much too selfishly intelligent to be willing to die in battle.
• All republics that acquire supremacy over other nations rule them selfishly and oppressively.
• I have no children, unfortunately, and being unwilling, selfishly, to devote my entire means to my own use exclusively, I try to help others in a way that I think most suitable.
• I like it selfishly, so to say, for the joy and pleasure I have in giving.
• England was selfishly silent, and would incur no responsibility.
• But she could not selfishly take her own happiness while the others needed her so much, and she steadily refused to even think of marriage until the spring came again.
• Up to that time she had thought of the matter differently, as she would have said, selfishly.
• I will not take your time to go selfishly into details now.
• He resolved in his wagon that night, that when the time came for another miracle, he would not selfishly usurp the honour of performing it.
• I felt what might be their influence on the fate of that day, and selfishly partook of their impatience to arrive on the field of battle.
• I loved her, selfishly, after the manner of mankind.
• The Spartans, I suspect, found her out and kept her selfishly to themselves.
• It was necessary for my own comfort, speaking selfishly, that the place should be made habitable.
• How selfishly eager he was to be started on his way not even the girl could have known.
• Moore imagined that in selfishly abandoning herself to her own grief, she must have neglected her daughter, and her remorse knew no bounds.
• He played like a sportsman, sometimes rashly, often brilliantly, but never selfishly.
• Nor was their patriotism dimmed by many reverses of the army, and they selfishly demanded that the war should be continued indefinitely.
• She was selfishly desirous to have her anxieties at rest, for, as she had told her husband, they were the only cloud on her happiness, and she wanted that happiness complete.
• Nor can it be alleged with truth that he accepted it from mercenary motives, or used it selfishly.
• Further, in doing so I have selfishly spoiled the prospects of one of the ladies.
• I love you too selfishly perhaps? I shall be laying on your beloved head a burden heavy out of all proportion to the joy my love can bring to your heart.
• Grief made me selfishly passive, or I should have opened my eyes and theirs to the danger.
• The bed seemed selfishly to take up most of the space.
• Perhaps, some dweller in the valley longs for the height, and sets forth, heeding not the eager hands that, selfishly, as it seems, would keep him within their loving reach.
• And I selfishly decided that the Judge might have this privilege entirely to himself.
• It is incredible that such a hit-or-miss, in large part selfishly determined, policy could have been an important cause of our national prosperity.
• But fortunately the twins were not so selfishly proud as to allow this state of matters to go on for ever.
• They will selfishly claim Him who will not follow Him.
• The Church or the man that selfishly saveth his life shall lose it.
• But he had used her recklessly and selfishly, and she had done with him.
• Selfishly, as well as charitably, would I cherish him.
• Perhaps I act selfishly in taking it, but a day may come when I shall justify that selfishness to you.
• You selfishly enjoy his visit, not suspecting that you, too, are ignorantly helpful.
• It revels selfishly in the harmonies of perception itself, harmonies which perhaps it attributes to the object through want of consideration.
• Here, you see, I have lived so apart from others, perhaps selfishly, that I had grown accustomed to a false sense of peace.
• An impressive warning to the old, who are selfishly urged to do hard tasks, that they must conserve their own vitality.
• The second part gives a vivid picture of the vices characteristic of a prosperous state of society which is godless, and therefore selfishly luxurious.

Similar words containing SELFISH without suffix ly

selfish13 unselfish15 damselfish19 selfishness17 unselfishly20 damselfishes21 selfishnesses19 unselfishness19 unselfishnesses21

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