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 Translation for 'selfish' from English to Esperanto
ADJ   selfish | more selfish | most selfish
egoisma {adj}selfish
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Translation for 'selfish' from English to Esperanto

selfish
egoisma {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • The Selfish Brain theory states that the human brain prioritizes its own comparatively high needs in regulating the organism's energy supply. In this respect, the brain behaves in a "selfish" manner.
  • Americans still claim that people should act morally, and not solely out of selfish desire for profit, yet in all practical matters, they pursue and reward behavior that is selfish and profit-driven.
  • Once again, please forgive my selfish ranting.
  • This is because there can be a selective advantage for selfish genetic elements in spite of a host cost.
  • In the next scene, Blepyrus’ neighbor is laying his household objects out in front of his house to be contributed to the common fund as the Selfish Man enters.

  • Following the transfer, Shrewsbury manager Gary Peters claimed Asamoah's conduct was that of a 'selfish player and a selfish person', and revealed Asamoah would have been sacked by Shrewsbury Town had his deal with Nice fallen through.
  • According to theorist Hugh Blair, the man of feeling "lives in a different sort of world from what the selfish man inhabits.
  • Selfish genetic elements (historically also referred to as selfish genes, ultra-selfish genes, selfish DNA, parasitic DNA and genomic outlaws) are genetic segments that can enhance their own transmission at the expense of other genes in the genome, even if this has no positive or a net negative effect on organismal fitness.
  • 4. Thou shalt not be selfish.
  • The Testacea species group is used in population genetics to study sex-ratio distorting 'selfish' or 'driving' X chromosomes.

  • Sara is a very selfish woman with an even more selfish mother, who breaks up her marriage, gives up on her loving husband and two kids on the insistence of her greedy mother.
  • Parasitic chromosomes are "selfish" chromosomes that propagate throughout cell divisions, even if they confer no benefit to the overall organism's survival.
  • He pointed to all the sex, polygamy and adultery in the Bible but stated that man was even more degraded and selfish, and boldly stated that "No man cares for any woman" and that the worship of God was mostly the selfish desire to avoid Hell and grab "happiness and prosperity of everlasting life" for oneself.
  • What a selfish world this is!
  • Pook learns NOT to be selfish.

  • 'selfish' (singular) and [...] 'selfish' (plural).
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