Sentence example with the word 'selfishly'

selfishly

Definition adv. in an egotistical manner

Last update: July 5, 2015


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Those who are too hungry to wait shall eat at home; and not put to shame those who have no houses (and presumably not enough food either), by bringing their viands to church and selfishly eating them apart.   [Please select]

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"Here is a girl," I told myself, "so selfishly wrapped up in her father she hasn't a thought for anyone else."   [Please select]

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I was but half awake, and so cold that I selfishly crept over between him and Willis.   [Please select]

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I'm very unhappy tonight, darling mother, and selfishly crying out to you.'   [Please select]

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Now she was beginning to study him from a standpoint peculiarly and selfishly her own.   [Please select]

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--Throughout all the period of her supremacy, Sparta dealt selfishly and tyrannically with the other Grecian states.   [Please select]

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People who selfishly objected to Yoop's taking their cows and sheep for his food.   [Please select]

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This statement is not entirely true: I selfishly kept that pleasure for myself.   [Please select]

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In spite of her knowledge to the contrary, she had the feeling of having acted selfishly.   [Please select]

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Everybody was very kind and patient with her, but she was too selfishly miserable to notice it.   [Please select]

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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.   [Please select]

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