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Webster 1913 Edition
Selfish
Self′ish
,Adj.
1.
Caring supremely or unduly for one’s self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
They judge of things according to their own private appetites and
selfish
passions. Cudworth.
In that throng of
selfish
hearts untrue. Keble.
2.
(Ethics)
Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.
Hobbes and the
selfish
school of philosophers. Fleming.
Webster 1828 Edition
Selfish
SELF'ISH
,Adj.