Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: He makes men naturally selfish; he represents them as pursuing wealth for sordid objects, and for the narrowest personal pleasures.

Infinitive complement

• think: It isn't selfish to think this: it's responsible.

Modifies a noun

• memes: Who is to do battle with the selfish memes?

• individualism: We must show, for example, that personal responsibility does not mean selfish individualism.

• replicators: We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators ' .

• motive: Work for God must be without any selfish motive or the crown will slip from the hand.

• ambition: He tells them not to do anything from selfish ambition or from cheap desire to boast.

• bastard: I had to swallow the fact that I was a selfish bastard.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: For purely selfish reasons, of course, I couldn't wait for this smoking ban to go ahead.

• inherently: Nor does it imply a belief that people are inherently selfish and that their votes can be bought by tax-cutting bribery.

• utterly: My tolerance of golfers is, of course, utterly selfish.

• fundamentally: The Freudian concept of human beings as fundamentally selfish and instinct driven has been fostered by business because it produces ideal consumers.

• incredibly: Spend it on a nice big car a nice big house, probably a helicopter, er, yes I'd be incredibly selfish.

• essentially: Can Melissa triumph over her essentially selfish nature, and do the honorable thing?

Used with adjective complement

• appear: At the beginning, she appeared almost selfish ( I felt ).

• seem: Cooperation is common in nature, but the puzzle why it would evolve when survival seems selfish.

• feel: I felt quite selfish about it actually, like they were my own secret band.

• sound: Good luck:- ) - Steve You sound very selfish to me.

• become: You made us rise above ourselves, to become less selfish, to think of others first, to make an effort.

• bear: Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.