Definition of Selfish person

1. Noun. A person who is unusually selfish.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Selfish Person

selfexcitation
selfexcitations
selfgravitating
selfheals
selfhood
selfhoods
selfie
selfies
selfing
selfings
selfinteraction
selfish
selfish DNA
selfish gene
selfish person (current term)
selfishly
selfishness
selfishnesses
selfism
selfisms
selfist
selfists
selfless
selflessly
selflessness
selflessnesses
selflike
selfline
selflines

Literary usage of Selfish person

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order by George Crabb (1816)
"What is lent must be asked for when it is wanted; whatever has been lost and is found must be recovered by a claim; whatever a selfish person wants, ..."

2. Life and Letters of Horace Bushnell by Horace Bushnell, Mary A. Bushnell Cheney (1880)
"You may be a selfish person, thus loving, but this is not your selfishness. In the same way, we may love Christ artistically, as being the perfect beauty ..."

3. The Child; His Thinking, Feeling, and Doing by Amy Eliza Tanner (1915)
"It is sometimes said that the most selfish person is the one most tenderly ... If it is expended upon a selfish person who is believed to be worthy of it, ..."

4. The Economy of Education by William A. Sturdy (1909)
"... for that reason it would be impossible to call the attention away from selfish convictions to demonstrate the futility of what to a selfish person is a ..."

5. The Business of Advertising by Earnest Elmo Calkins (1915)
"However, it is always well to bear in mind that while the storekeeper is a very selfish person, the manufacturer is also a selfish person. ..."

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