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SELFISH
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selfish adjectiv
egoist, interesat.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Selfish people always like to talk about themselves.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
If my grief were selfish, I did not know it to be so.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
I was not such a selfish hound as that.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
She had not been withstanding them on selfish principles alone, she had not consulted merely her own gratification; that might have been ensured in some degree by the excursion itself, by seeing Blaize Castle; no, she had attended to what was due to others, and to her own character in their opinion.
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
Grant is most kind and obliging to me, and though he is really a gentleman, and, I dare say, a good scholar and clever, and often preaches good sermons, and is very respectable, I see him to be an indolent, selfish bon vivant, who must have his palate consulted in everything; who will not stir a finger for the convenience of any one; and who, moreover, if the cook makes a blunder, is out of humour with his excellent wife.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
He had come, in his anxiety to see how she bore Frank Churchill's engagement, with no selfish view, no view at all, but of endeavouring, if she allowed him an opening, to soothe or to counsel her.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
For now that he think he is free from every trace of us all, and that he has escaped us with so many hours to him, then his selfish child-brain will whisper him to sleep.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
Don't be selfish.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
"No, to remind me not to be selfish."
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)