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What does selfish mean?

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Adjective
  1. Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
  2. Having regard for oneself above others’ well-being.
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I cried as I admitted that I was so selfish that I was blinded to the fact that Will had needed my help all along.
By our very nature, we are selfish, jealous, envious, stricken with strife, and sometimes downright rebellious.
My beautiful children who I'd had were just gone out of my life in that one single moment, that one simple, selfish act.
Sports cars have been called selfish cars on account of the fact you don't have to give anyone a lift but one cupholder was a bit much!
He sweeps them off their feet, uses them for his own selfish purposes, and then dumps them when he gets tired of them.
Are we to believe that graduates of Yale are so narrow-minded and selfish that they only want to help Yalies?

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