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Перевод: selfish

[прилагательное]
эгоистичный; эгоистический

Тезаурус:

1. We claim that it is our right, and yet, so often, in so many little things, our free will is guided not by our relationship with our inner friend, but by our selfish, greedy nature.
2. Can this group remain within a united working class or will it pursue selfish interests, separating itself further from the remainder of the working class?
3. Science: Selfish genes vs the common good Matt Ridley explains intragenomic conflict - the latest way of explaining a biological paradox
4. We are taught that we should not love ourselves - that self-love is conceited, vain or selfish - and obediently, we learn to dislike and criticise ourselves.
5. However, I also linked wealth with being selfish, greedy, materialistic, hard-hearted, snobbish, and dull - as well as with childhood images from the Bible about camels and the eye of a needle!
6. An uneasy tension disturbs the heart of the selfish gene theory.
7. Such Devoted Sisters by Eileen Goudge (Michael Joseph, 14.99) - In 1950s Hollywood, starlet Dolly betrays to McCarthyite purgers her selfish and more successful actress sister Eve.
8. a "sordid and selfish character" who "had warped further and further out the straight with time"; a passenger aboard the Golden Mary who, after the ship is wrecked, thinks only of himself.
9. She admired few men, considering them selfish, lazy and weak, so that the one or two who won her respect by sustained endeavour were doubly honoured.
10. " I think marriage can be a very good basis for developing your own personality, provided you feel that is something of value to do and not just selfish.
11. Freemasonry has been criticised, with good reasons, for its false god, its inaccurate gospel, its secrecy and, consequently, its easy abuse, its confusion of Scripture with its own ancient myths and fables, and its susceptibility to being misused for members' selfish ends.
12. I am not suggesting that you should be totally selfish, but people will put on those who can't say "no" when they need a helping hand.
13. Raskolnikov is young, preoccupied and merely puzzled - "young, abstract and therefore cruel", the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere - but the reader attends in tragic wonder, for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go, a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end, at once in character, at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man's marriage and his other circumstances, personal to his "destitution" or "extremity" or " misre" (nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty), and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky's work.