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(Quite literally, my kids have so much stuff that they don't know what to do with it so it ends up in selfishly guarded piles, yet all their friends have more than twice as many toys!)

On Costly Toys regina doman 2007

That abandonment of the primacy of Justice has had dreadful effects and one of these, along with everyone lese is the emotionalising as in selfishly emoting of modern people.

One Faces Death One Does Not Newmania 2007

Mightn’t we all close ranks and tut-tut-tut those women who persist in selfishly pursuing their own pleasures at cost to their children?

I Was Drinking When I Wrote This | Her Bad Mother 2007

My mother-in-law wore black after her husband died, and I recall selfishly wishing she could give up the somber look for our wedding sixth months later, so as not to bring us down.

Vicki Iovine: Girlfriends' Guide: We've Forgotten How To Mourn 2009

Obama and Hillary both so "selfishly" agreed to not count Michigan and Florida.

Poll: Plurality Of Dems Says Victory Delivered By Super-Delegates "Not Legitimate" 2009

The critics are not being irrational, even though the speaker probably didn't mean it you know that it wouldn't be long before some conservative would come out with some attack on gays for 'selfishly' not caring about 'the children'.

Random Punishment, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It is just 'selfishly' laying down and tries to get itself out of this mess with the best it can do.

China - "non"-helpful? Sun Bin 2008

But the cost of a simple suicide at Dignitas has risen from £1,800 in 2005 to £4,500, fuelling suspicions that the clinic may not be sticking to Swiss laws that are supposed to prevent people "selfishly" profiting from assisted suicide.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

Malena and CLR - who traveled all the way from Mangaf - revealed that they have been playing together for sometime since none of this groups played "selfishly" and everyone could see that their moves were coordinated which showed they had been involved in hours of practice, they made the right passes and it seemed that most of them knew where the other players were on the court without having to search for them.

Arab Times Kuwait English Daily 2010

- Last fall, when Carol Gray entered the online drawing to win a new vehicle, she said she prayed "selfishly" to win before confessing her selfishness to God.

Christian Examiner Newspapers 2009