145 adjectives to describe selfishnesses

A revolutionizing work like that proposed by Nehemiah was certain to affect their vested interests and to reveal their cruel selfishness.

Our modern philosophers, being Aryan, assure us that the victory of Carthage would have been an irretrievable disaster to mankind; that her falsity, her narrow selfishness, her bloody inhumanity, would have stifled all progress; that her dominion would have been the tyranny of a few heartless masters over a world of tortured slaves.

This was mere selfishness at such a moment.

Yet in this frank avowal of masculine selfishness and sensuality Hahn finds "a certain refinement of sentiment"!

Well, their Maker trains them to pure selfishness.

Give up nobility and all the heroic poses that go with it and practise a little enlightened selfishness instead.

But this cowardly selfishness he put away after the tenth of a second of thought, and now he was insisting, even against Enid's gasping objection, that she must run on alone and leave him to take care of the footpads.

I saw the supreme selfishness of shutting her up on the desert, without any glimpse of the outer world.

If I were a Christian,' said Lancelot, 'like you, I would call this credit system of yours the devil's selfish counterfeit of God's order of mutual love and trust; the child of that miserable dream, which, as Dr. Chalmers well said, expects universal selfishness to do the work of universal love.

Some have shielded themselves, or tried to shield themselves, in an armour of stoical indifferenceof utter selfishness, being sure that at all events there was one friendship in the world which could neither change nor fadeSelf-love.

The only real disadvantage was the noise made by early risers in the morning, convincing us more than ever of the essential selfishness of the early bird.

Luckily love, even in its sensual stages, has counteracted this parental selfishness and myopia by inducing young folks to marry for health, youth, and beauty, and creating an aversion to old age, disease, and deformity.

The intense selfishness of the first was no more a secret to him than was the entire disinterestedness of the last.

But the compassion of the public was in a great measure shut against him, as they thought it a piece of barbarous and unpardonable selfishness, that he had not rather come boldly forward to meet the consequences of his own conduct, than suffer a man of so much public worth as Mr. Falkland, and who had been so desirous of doing him good, to be exposed to the risk of being tried for a murder that he had committed.

We must realize to ourselves that it is guided exclusively by unscrupulous selfishness, that it shrinks from no means of accomplishing its aims, and thus shows admirable diplomatic skill.

They avowed the most absolute selfishness, the most abject fear of death and pain, with a frankness that would have amazed the Cynics and disgusted the felons of almost any Earthly nation.

It is not only your uncle whom I dislike, but his methods, his craft, his infernal, incarnate selfishness.

Someone of us criticised the story, and asked whether it was not a case of refined selfishness.

If you do you are a fool, good intentions and bald greed go to the wall, but subtle selfishness with a dash of unscrupulousness pulls more plums out of life's pie than the seven deadly virtues.

There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour and a general want of understanding.

They err who would assert that invariably this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart.

Thus petty, time-serving selfishness is the vice peculiarly characteristic of times of peace and prosperity.

The violence and nurtured hatred of some of them offended her deeply; the egregious selfishness of others seemed to her as a flaming sin.

Like every man, moreover, who fails to taste the joys of disinterested service for his fellow-men, Herod paid the bitter penalty for his own unrestrained selfishness.

When therefore he died in 1519, at the age of twenty-seven, after a life of vicious selfishness (which, however, was no bar to his having the noblest tomb in the world, at S. Lorenzo), the succession should have passed to the other branch of the Medici family, the descendants of old Giovanni's second son Lorenzo, brother of Cosimo.

145 adjectives to describe  selfishnesses