Synonyms:
selfishness
Meaning: stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
Usage examples
"My selfishness, I know, must seem quite unforgivable.
Its misery, its sin, its selfishness, appall my heart.
I have seen signs of the reawakening of greed, of selfishness.
"My selfishness afflicts me--" he began, but she would not let him finish.
It is all humbug,--all selfishness, and worry; an unwholesome season of unnatural activities.
I can see how poor people blind themselves and deceive each other, calling selfishness devotion, and bondage contentment.
"Forgive me," I said, "I am selfishness itself to speak to you thus now, to take advantage of your misery to make you listen to mine.
He may not, in order to succeed, give up all animality and selfishness, by any means; but a portion of it must, at least, be sacrificed.
And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a virtue or an idea.
I had resolved in my own mind that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness, and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.