"act selfish" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to behave in a self-centered or self-interested manner. Example: The CEO's decision to cut employee benefits and increase his own salary could be seen as an act of selfishness.
If everybody would act selfish and stop helping and giving to others, then nobody will achieve more than what he can do by himself.
In fact, when you go from being your own boss in a bootstrapped company to having a fiduciary duty to investors, the honeymoon is over pretty quick: you can't act selfish and do what feels right; you have to take into consideration how your words and actions will affect your significant other.
Was his act selfish, or was it his choice to make?
She writes that his depiction of an ideal woman was not yet fully developed in Allah jang Palsoe, though she finds Houw Nio to be a depiction of how a woman should not act: selfish and addicted to gambling.
"Today our names are on the moment and when your name is on the moment, you have two options: You either act selfish, don't care, don't do anything, remain silent and know your place.
Do not act selfish or be a bully towards others.
Don't hesitate to liven up a party or draw attention to you or act a bit selfish and bossy.
She really annoys me when she acts selfish and it happens all the time!
There are those who think so.... Of one thing we can be sure: if Britain had stayed, revisionist historians would certainly have condemned it as another act of selfish imperialism".
In several experiments, we presented participants with an act of selfish behavior, in which one person was given an opportunity to split a sum of money with another person but decided to keep all the money for himself.
At the same time he should publicly rebuke him for the appalling timing of his book this week as an act of selfish disregard for the Labour party, to whom he owes everything.
