n. (Zool.) A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus
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They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. [ 1913 Webster ]
Selfishness, -- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. Sir J. Mackintosh. [ 1913 Webster ]
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They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. [ 1913 Webster ]
Selfishness, -- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. Sir J. Mackintosh. [ 1913 Webster ]