Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet SELFISHLY

Definition av SELFISHLY

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• Frank Cotton is a hedonistic criminal selfishly devoted to sensual experience even if it harms others.
• Therefore, one could say that the first known inhabitant of Swieqi was an illegal builder called Augustinu Borg! A couple of Birkirkara residents, amongst them Ġorġ Lanza Zarb, could not bear to see public land to be stolen so selfishly.
• " Bennett concluded that the film is "neither revolutionary nor black because it presents the spectator with sterile daydreams and a superhero who is ahistorical, selfishly individualist with no revolutionary program, who acts out of panic and desperation.
• On Saturday 4 July 1885, a "frank warning" was issued in the Pall Mall Gazette: "All those who are squeamish, and all those who are prudish, and all those who would prefer to live in a fool's paradise of imaginary innocence and purity, selfishly oblivious to the horrible realities which torment those whose lives are passed in the London inferno, will do well not to read the Pall Mall Gazette of Monday and the three following days".
• Opportunism is regarded as unhealthy, as a disorder or as a character deficiency, if selfishly pursuing an opportunity is blatantly anti-social (involves disregard for the needs, wishes and interests of others).
• Randal suggests increasingly ridiculous scenarios, all the while cajoling Dante for selfishly dooming humanity by withholding the car and its inspiration from the masses if he refuses.
• "I was hurt, saddened, and selfishly disappointed that we never got a chance to meet," said Jalen Rose, at his father's funeral in 2007.
• The author addresses remarks to both the poor, who are warned that material poverty in itself is valueless, and the rich, who are warned that wealth used selfishly damns the possessor.
• Along with her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit, Eden selfishly plans to make all the theatre performers stay and rehearse on Christmas Day! Not even Eden's costume designer and childhood friend, Catherine can talk Eden out of her self-centered tantrum.
• Krimibhojana/Krimibhaksha (worm-food): As per the Bhagavata Purana and the Devi Bhagavata Purana, it is where a person who does not share his food with guests, elders, children or the gods, and selfishly eats it alone, and he who eats without performing the five yajnas (panchayajna) is chastised.
• "27 Club" was a "blistering seven-minute epic" about living life either selflessly or selfishly, with "rampages from Hendrix riffs to reggae".
• Carissa reveals that Eleanor is actually "Nosey" Nora Cutler, the girl at summer camp whom Drea spread the false rumor about and outed as a lesbian; an event she had selfishly forgotten, which prompted Eleanor to change her name and undergo a rhinoplasty.
• Whoever so selfishly takes advantage of the gravest need of his fellow citizens, acts so reprehensibly and meanly, that he must be subject to the death penalty which is exclusively provided for people pests of this kind according to § 1 of the People Pests Ordinance of 5.
• " James Southall of Movie Wave wrote "The Magnificent Seven isn’t quite the glorious swansong I had selfishly craved it to be, but for what it is, it does the job.

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