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Example sentences for "selfishly"

Lexicographically close words:
selff; selffe; selffis; selfhood; selfish; selfishness; selfless; selflessness; selfsame; selig
  1. He, though dead, is a living rebuke to the scholar who selfishly enjoys the privilege of an ample education and does not impart the benefits of it to his fellows.

  2. A sleeping man is selfishly regardless of the disquiet he brings on his fellow-creatures, and John, although he must have dreamt all sorts of funny things, did not dream that he was disturbing our night's rest.

  3. It was certainly ridiculous for man who had once so selfishly consulted his own interests to be stickling now about the rights of others.

  4. Selfishly exultant, I hug the book more closely, turn to steal a glance at my defeated rival, and recognise--Mademoiselle Dufresnoy.

  5. Perhaps I act selfishly in taking it, but a day may come when I shall justify that selfishness to you.

  6. Whatever comes of the scheme which we have endeavoured to discountenance, the charge against its opponents of being selfishly regardless of the poor, ought to cease.

  7. To have the baby left to follow in the steps of its mother was a thing too terrible to be endured, and yet I shrank selfishly from taking upon my shoulders the responsibility of training the child.

  8. Nobody answered my knock, however, and so I did not see Mrs. Brownrig, for which I was selfishly glad.

  9. The question had come to me before, but I confess I had selfishly thought of it only as a personal matter.

  10. Conspiracy after conspiracy was formed against them, only to be detected and suppressed, while the patriots divided into hostile factions each selfishly ambitious for control.

  11. The selfishly ambitious liberator gladly accepted, and within a month Sucre was on his way south at the head of a fine army of Colombian veterans.

  12. We again had much difficulty in getting seat–room, guards affording no manner of assistance; the carriages also were filled with people who had travelled all night from Paris, and perhaps were selfishly unwilling to be disturbed by intruders.

  13. I shall be more than usually sad and solitary till their return; so pray, I selfishly entreat, do not extend their absence.

  14. He cares less about his children than I about you, Maud; he is selfishly sunk in futurity--a feeble visionary.

  15. It revels selfishly in the harmonies of perception itself, harmonies which perhaps it attributes to the object through want of consideration.

  16. And then it made me twenty times more wretched, to know how unselfishly mindful she was of me, and how selfishly mindful I was of myself.

  17. He has been, in his dull way, proud of his wife, and selfishly pleased at the comfort she has brought him.

  18. Oh, thou most devoted father Fill your chest--hide well the key Countless wealth for me you gather, And I selfishly would rather You should starve and save than me.

  19. I have acted cruelly and selfishly to poor Godfrey, and squandered in folly the property his mother brought me, and which should have made him rich.

  20. I was selfishly glad he had not married, because if he had I could not have thought and dreamed of him--it would have been wrong.

  21. I thought he did not care much, and the thought selfishly made my own heartache worse.

  22. Why didn't he fill his box, instead of selfishly keeping it all to himself?

  23. Read to me, by all means, if I am not selfishly keeping you too long.

  24. I like unexaggerated intercourse; it is not my way to overpower with amorous epithets, any more than to worry with selfishly importunate caresses.

  25. I seem to recognize in him one of those characters who, sensitive enough themselves, are selfishly relentless towards the sensitiveness of others.

  26. And the management of the Corporation has recognized its responsibility in this regard and has endeavored to use its strength not selfishly but for the good of all concerned.

  27. The rich man is the Jewish nation, by God's gift rich in position and privilege, but selfishly keeping all to itself, despising and neglecting others.

  28. But it may be asked: Do not many masters selfishly use their slaves according to that definition?

  29. Then, by what means shall the constitution make them secure against the iniquities of class-legislation, which wickedly and selfishly sacrifices their interests and rights to the ruling class?

  30. We reply: Do not many parents selfishly use their children according to that definition, neglecting their culture and true well-being, temporal and eternal, for the sake of gain?

  31. They were selfishly bent on pain and renunciation, he was selfishly bent on pleasure and indulgence.

  32. Roma knew very little of his life at Wareborough, and, selfishly speaking, cared very little with whom, or to what extent, he chose to flirt.

  33. If my father acts selfishly toward the baron, that man is answerable for it.

  34. The only man in the world for whom he felt any degree of attachment had behaved unkindly and selfishly toward him.

  35. But to me the writing expresses the woman as I see her: heavy, strong, intelligent, lacking all charm of sex, and selfishly cold.

  36. At first I felt I could not give you up; but now I see that it will be better for us to part, rather than for me to take you selfishly away from your family.

  37. I had selfishly accepted it all without thought--and only half grateful.

  38. Now some consciousness, equally as intangible, suggested to him that she was selfishly selling herself for ease.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selfishly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.