Crossword clues for selfishly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Selfishly \Self"ish*ly\, adv. In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
Wiktionary
adv. In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
WordNet
adv. in an egotistical manner; "he behaved egotistically" [syn: egotistically] [ant: unselfishly]
Usage examples of "selfishly".
When I cautioned you then against becoming an astronaut, I was thinking selfishly only of the Navy.
The overfalls of rock and the unfriendly thorn-trees, selfishly taking up all the room, necessitate frequent zigzags up and down the rocky, precipitous banks.
In that review which, in spite of his own soul, he had persuaded himself to publish, knowing it to be false, had he not actively, most unconscientiously, and altogether selfishly, done her serious intellectual wrong, and heavy moral injury?
Especially disturbing where the memories of his mutilated, suffering soldiers, the time after the Bamah battle, which he caused, he selfishly, ignorantly ordered.
Bible--the one book that was inerrantly true from kiver to kiver--instead of selfishly thinking about temporal things like rent and the groceries.
Why, if dear Bosie were here, instead of indulging him-self so selfishly in Italy, he would write verses to you, ma'mselle - verses like purple blooms in a caliph's garden.
He's frightfully bitter against the people in Washington who gave him the runaround, and he insists that certain interests are trying to smother his process in order to build up their own business during the war and, more selfishly, after the war.
You've selfishly jeopardized the training and acted like a bovine peasant.
I found myself with my two companions, whom I had selfishly forgotten, standing bolt upright in the gathering dawn.