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How to pronounce “selfish”
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Pronunciation guide for selfish
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of selfish with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Righteous Mind
years has been the idea that people are basically selfish.
- Definition summary
- (clarification of this definition is needed.)(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
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How to pronounce selfish
The Righteous Mind
years has been the idea that people are basically selfish.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “selfish”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (clarification of this definition is needed.)(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
- Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.
- (video games) Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.
- (biology) Related to or equivalent to a selfish gene; best understood as existing to preserve and replicate itself in competition with other entities at the same level of existence, rather than at the level of the individual or population containing it.
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