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selfishly
adverb
In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
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Taking on the miners was ugly, but they had created the 31.5% wage increase of 1973 – something selfishly destructive of other workers' jobs.
Jiracek runs at an exposed Poland defence and finds Baros, who selfishly and wastefully shoots straight at Tyton from 25 yards out when he had team-mates to his left and right.
And whatever world leaders come up with, their solutions are hardly likely to be vote-grabbers as we all selfishly hang on to the dreams of lifestyles promoted by advertisers.
Selfishly, I'm glad Napster faded when it did.
I fleetingly and selfishly wonder if it was for our benefit (my friend and I are the only two non-Bengalis in the restaurant), but then I notice other diners cackling as their attention drifts away from their companions and toward the on-screen antics.By the time we leave, night has fallen, and the street seems livelier and more bustling.
A burglar in Seoul, the capital, has defended himself by noting that the rich people he robbed were selfishly hoarding dollars that they should have swapped for won to brake the currency's slide.All three candidates in the presidential election due on December 18th are playing up to this silliness.
Reform will be one of the toughest tests of universal suffrage: children can't vote, young people don't vote, but older people have a huge incentive to vote selfishly, and to turf out governments that threaten their pensions and health care.The highest priority is to persuade older workers to stay a few more years in employment.
Born when the state was more generous, pensioners are now accused of selfishly hoarding resources that could otherwise go to the young.
Such cells can behave completely selfishly because each of them contributes directly to the next generation.
Southern European politicians say Germany is selfishly wielding its clout to impose austerity policies that will wreck their part of Europe in order to protect German taxpayers.Others are worried that Germany is being too passive.
More selfishly, one result of HPTN052 in those receiving drugs was less tuberculosis, a disease that is a common consequence AIDS.
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