selfish attitude

collocation in English

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selfish
adjective
uk
/ˈsel.fɪʃ/us
/ˈsel.fɪʃ/
Someone who is selfish only thinks of their ...
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attitude
noun
uk
/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us
/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofselfishandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Injustices are often caused to innocent people by the stubborn andselfishattitudeof one partner to a marriage.
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We have no intention of adopting a jealous or aselfishattitudeagainst countries whose possessions are smaller or less various than our own.
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That is a terrible indictment of contemporary society and of the uncaring, un- feeling andselfishattitudethat is abroad in society.
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We do not share theselfishattitudethat the only proper investment is investment in oneself for oneself.
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I can adopt aselfishattitudeand go to the gutter or try to rise to the stars, it is true.
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It sounds a very respectable word for a ratherselfishattitude.
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The past eight years have seen an aggressive non-caring attitude, aselfishattitude, a what's-in-it-for-me attitude.
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One can hardly imagine a moreselfishattitude.
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Both employers and trade unionists are bound to some degree to take aselfishattitude.
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This is a mostselfishattitudeand quite unwarranted.
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I do not believe that beekeepers themselves would deliberately hide the presence of a disease because that would be a very shortsighted andselfishattitude.
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This fashionableselfishattitudeis not, of course, the prerogative of the owners of capital, large of small.
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It is important that we do not take aselfishattitudeabout the green belt.
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The reasons may be demographic or societal; and young people may have a moreselfishattitudeor be more materialistic.
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It has always taken aselfishattitudetowards local government.
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Does he acknowledge that this delay is almost solely attributable to the social irresponsibility andselfishattitudeof certain general practitioners in the area?
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It is theselfishattitudethat we have to discourage and encourage the proper and safe use of all our transport systems.
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It seems to me an extraordinarilyselfishattitude; one could almost imagine it to be a one-person activity.
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Both those countries have been seriously undermined politically as a result of ourselfishattitudein terms of trade.
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They are uncaring and superficial, and their intenselyselfishattitudeto those who need to work for a living is a price that we are no longer prepared to pay.
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