selfish
egoísta
definition
adjective
I joined them for selfish reasons
(of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.
translation of 'selfish'
adjective
interesseiro,
egoísta
example
For Scotland's only representative in the game's biggest tournament, the motives are purely 'selfish' .
Call me 'selfish' , but I wanted to leave my mark on a true original.
Sometimes I feel too 'selfish' , and other times I feel too selfless.
Although he had to admit it seemed 'selfish' , he couldn't tell her.
They said society believed that they did a lucrative job for purely 'selfish' reasons.
She felt a bit envious momentarily before she brushed it off, feeling 'selfish' .
Her girls, she says, are less 'selfish' after their week away.
Try to protest that the government is ruining your health with its 'selfish' pleasures and see how far you get!
In my last conversation with my Grandmother before she died she called me 'selfish' .
Since no crime has been committed in the absence of a 'selfish' motive, these are mostly open and shut cases.
I gave a bittersweet sigh and tried not to feel 'selfish' about the situation.
To do good deeds simply to obtain good karma would be to act from a 'selfish' motive, and would not earn much merit.
She was also starting to think that maybe she was a bit too 'selfish' towards him.
My reason for being pro-choice is kind of 'selfish' in a way.
I suppose one could say that we are 'selfish' in this way.
My 'selfish' desires had led me into betraying this withdrawn and deeply religious family.
The consumer is encouraged to feel that the transaction is less 'selfish' , on both sides, than normal.
When I had the second, I realised it was a bit 'selfish' .
I realized then that what I had said sounded incredibly 'selfish' , yet I did not speak up.
His determination and the will to win make him 'selfish' on the ice.
For the moment, completely 'selfishly' and setting politics aside, my main feeling is that I'm glad I don't work or live in a building that calls attention to itself.
My only fear is that I won't live long enough to be a father or 'selfishly' that I won't live long enough for them to remember me.
If people were prepared to be a little more courteous and patient instead of panicking and driving 'selfishly' , many of the gridlock problems would not have happened.
It is based upon greed and 'selfishness' and the only god is profit, regardless.
While people 'selfishly' keep reptiles for their own amusement these animals will continue to suffer and the problem of pet-linked disease in humans will continue.
I thought being human was all about goodness and sharing, not about greed and 'selfishness' .
His examples from the past reveal that greed, hubris and 'selfishness' often impeded recognition of a problem until it was too late.
As a manifestation of petty 'selfishness' and greed such meanness is hard to credit.
Man is 'selfishly' depleting the natural resources.
In an era dominated by greed and 'selfishness' , they acted with phenomenal selflessness.
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