selfish

How to use selfish in a sentence

• We of course sat down with her twice before school started and went through what happened to understand what she was thinking and had been exposed to, and to really make her understand how selfish and dangerous her actions were.

  Good kids sometimes lie to their parents. Shame and harsh punishments will only push them away. | Meghan Leahy | January 20, 2021 | Washington Post

• Our lives and our livelihoods are at risk, and anyone who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives because of their selfish idiocy.

  Democrats want to fine colleagues $1,000 a day if they refuse to wear a mask on Capitol grounds | Paulina Firozi | January 12, 2021 | Washington Post

• “It is not brave to refuse to wear a mask, it is selfish, stupid, and shameful behavior that puts lives at risk,” Dingell said in a statement first sent to The Washington Post.

  Democrats want to fine colleagues $1,000 a day if they refuse to wear a mask on Capitol grounds | Paulina Firozi | January 12, 2021 | Washington Post

• Instead, overlapping climate disasters could poison our politics even further, making all of us more selfish, more focused on our own comfort and safety, and less willing to sacrifice for or invest in a better common future.

  The pandemic taught us how not to deal with climate change | James Temple | January 1, 2021 | MIT Technology Review

• We were about as selfish as any one of my teams has ever played, so we’ve got a lot of work to do.

  Maryland struggles from the start and is stifled by Clemson in ACC/Big Ten Challenge | Emily Giambalvo | December 10, 2020 | Washington Post