Word Meanings - SELFISHLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.

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• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• SELFISHNESS
  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
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• INTERESTED
  1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
• PRIVATEERSMAN
  An officer or seaman of a privateer.
• INTERESTINGNESS
  The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
• REGARD
  1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat,
• PRIVATE
  to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward and akin to prae 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or
• PRIVATELY
  1. In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others. 2. In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.
• INTEREST
  1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. To love our native country . . . to be interested in
• PRIVATEER
  1. An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque. 2. The commander of a privateer. Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.
• INTERESTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being interested; selfishness. Richardson.
• REGARDING
  Concerning; respecting.
• INTERESTINGLY
  In an interesting manner.
• SELFISH
  Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming. (more info) 1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage,
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• INTERESTING
  Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news. Cowper.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• SELF-INTERESTED
  Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.
• DISINTEREST
  Disinterested. The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• BY-INTEREST
  Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.