Adjective:

தன்னலம் கருதுகிற,

selfish's Usage Examples:

Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.

Beneath an outward gloss of refinement these nobles were, as a class, coarse and selfish, and they made it their chief object to promote their own interests by fostering absolutist tendencies.

It certainly appears that some of his followers, and notably his three reckless sons, had given good cause for offence by highhanded and selfish acts.

Another form of the word, "Egotism," is really interchangeable, though in ordinary language it is often used specially (and similarly "egoism," as in George Meredith's Egoist) to describe the habit of magnifying one's self and one's achievements, or regarding all things from a selfish point of view.

No doubt by the prohibition to levy the smallest taille the feudal lords escaped direct taxation; but from the day when the privileged classes selfishly allowed the taxing of the third estate, provided that they themselves were exempt, they opened the door to monarchic absolutism.

It abounds in error as to matters of fact, contradicts human experience, reason and morals, and is one tissue of folly, deceit, enthusiasm, selfishness and crime.

I know it was selfish, but I felt emotions I never believed existed and I didn't want them to end… Things started to snowball from there.

Let the officers be wholly unselfish philanthropists, and they shall be equally impotent.

Synonyms:

egotistical, ungenerous, egoistical, self-serving, self-centred, stingy, self-loving, egocentric, egotistic, inconsiderate, self-seeking, narcissistic, self-centered, egoistic,

Antonyms:

unselfishness, unselfish, generous, considerate, altruistic,