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selfish interest

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meanings of selfishand interest


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selfish
adjective
uk /ˈsel.fɪʃ/ us /ˈsel.fɪʃ/
Someone who is selfish only thinks of their ...
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interest
noun
uk /ˈɪn.trest/ us /ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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Examples of selfish interest


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They have no selfishinterest.
Despite the obscurity, it is possible to trace the deadlock to two strains of selfishinterest among the governing classes: one archaic and aristocratic, the other modern and bourgeois.
This is no selfishinterest, and we have never sought, and do not wish to seek, to try to impose any solution on anybody.
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After all, money is not the only thing even from the point of view of selfishinterest.
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It is a personal and selfishinterest.
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Thus, in the most selfishinterest of her own, she is bound to keep her word and come to our aid if there is aggression.
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It was their own selfishinterest, the question of land and land values.
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They have no selfishinterest in it.
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It is our clear duty, and, indeed, it is to our selfishinterest, to do all we can to assist them.
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We cannot allow anyone to pursue his own selfishinterest guided solely by the profit motive.
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It cannot be a really impartial judgment if they have allowed selfishinterest to intervene.
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Are we in discussing this subject to think only of the shipowners, the narrow and most selfishinterest of the shipowners?
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He has pursued a purely sectional selfishinterest.
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It is our selfishinterest as well as our selfless interest to do this.
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It is that interest which is not the purely selfishinterest of the individual.
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We have no selfishinterest; we see our role there as a duty.
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None of them has a selfishinterest in these matters.
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I said that it was simple: it was that the advantage of the community must be put before private, selfishinterest.
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Let us get away from selfishinterest.
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