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"antonyms": [
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"word": "altruistic"
},
{
"word": "otherish"
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{
"word": "philanthropic"
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{
"word": "selfless"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"ref": "1997, John Peniel, chapter 10, in The Children Of The Law Of One & The Lost Teachings Of Atlantis, page 127:",
"text": "“We all have both a selfish separate self, and an Inner Being that is One with the Universal Spirit. In this sense, every human has a sort of ‘split personality’. We are all kind of what you call ‘schitzy’ with these two sides, these two people living within us. And they are in total opposition. The free will dictates which of these two sides will have its way in our life, at every given moment.”",
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"Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making."
],
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "xudbin"
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"roman": "ehaistýčny",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "эгаісты́чны"
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"code": "bn",
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"roman": "śarthopor",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "স্বার্থপর"
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"roman": "egoističen",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "егоистичен"
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"roman": "sebičen",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "себичен"
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"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoista"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "zi⁶ si¹",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "自私"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zìsī",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "自私"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "sobecký"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "selvisk"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoistisk"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoisma"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "memama"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
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"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "itsekäs"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "itsekeskeinen"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "égoïste"
},
{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoísta"
},
{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoistisch"
},
{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "selbstsüchtig"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egozentrisch"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "got",
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"roman": "seinagairns",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍃"
},
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"roman": "egoïstís",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "εγωιστής"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
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"roman": "svārthī",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "स्वार्थी"
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"roman": "matalbī",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "मतलबी"
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"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "önző"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoistis"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "leithleach"
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"code": "ga",
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"word": "cóngarach duit féin"
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"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoista"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jibunhon'i no",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "自分本位の"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "katte na",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "勝手な"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "migatte na",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "身勝手な"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jibunkatte na",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "自分勝手な"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "kea",
"lang": "Kabuverdianu",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "langon"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "igijeog-ida",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "이기적(利己的)이다"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jagi bonwi-ui",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "자기 본위(自己本位)의"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jemeotdaero hada",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "제멋대로 하다"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "özümcül",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "өзүмчүл"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "savanaudis"
},
{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "svāṟttha",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "സ്വാർത്ഥ"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "kaiapo"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "tūmatarau"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "offrun"
},
{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "selvisk"
},
{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoistisk"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "sjølvisk"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoistisk"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoistyczny"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "samolubny"
},
{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoísta"
},
{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoist"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "egoistíčnyj",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "эгоисти́чный"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "svārthin",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "स्वार्थिन्"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "fèineil"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "sebičan"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "sebecký"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoísta"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "självisk"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "självcentrerad"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "bencil"
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{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "egoist"
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{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "hodbin"
},
{
"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "hodkâm"
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ehojistýčnyj",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "егоїсти́чний"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "uk",
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"roman": "korýslyvyj",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "кори́сливий"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "xud ġarz",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "خود غرض"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 7 10",
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "pexil"
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"code": "zza",
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"sense": "holding one's self-interest as the standard for decision making",
"word": "pekhil"
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"ref": "1823, James Hogg, “Peril First. Love. Circle Third.”, in The Three Perils of Woman; or, Love, Leasing, and Jealousy. […], volume I, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 277:",
"text": "Take warning by my fate, and shun that flowery and bewitching path; for in its labyrinths the good, the gentle, the kind-hearted, and the benevolent, are too often lost; while the sordid and the selfish scarcely so much as run a hazard.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1921, Ben Travers, chapter V, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:",
"text": "The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?",
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"Having regard for one's own well-being above that of others."
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"_dis1": "13 77 7 3",
"code": "ar",
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"roman": "ʔanāniyy",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "أَنَانِيّ"
},
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"_dis1": "13 77 7 3",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "xudbin"
},
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"_dis1": "13 77 7 3",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "śarthopor",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "স্বার্থপর"
},
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"_dis1": "13 77 7 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "egoističen",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "егоистичен"
},
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"_dis1": "13 77 7 3",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoista"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 77 7 3",
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"roman": "egoističen",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "егоистичен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoista"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "sobecký"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "selvisk"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoistisk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoïstisch"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "zelfzuchtig"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoisma"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "memama"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "itsekäs"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "itsekeskeinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "égoïste"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "egoïstikós",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "εγωιστικός"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoista"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "sjálfhverfur"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoistis"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "leithleach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoista"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "wagamama na",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "わがままな"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "wagamama na",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "我が儘な"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rikoteki na",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "利己的な"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jaaejeog-ida",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "자애적(自愛的)이다"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "xo perist",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "خۆ پەرِست"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "savanaudis"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "offrun"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "selvisk"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoistisk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "sjølvisk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoistisk"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "samolubny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoísta"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoist"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "egoistíčnyj",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "эгоисти́чный"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "svārthin",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "स्वार्थिन्"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "fèineil"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "sebecký"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoísta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoistisk"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "självisk"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "bencil"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "egoist"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "hodbin"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "hodkâm"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "having regard for one's own well-being above that of others",
"word": "ích kỷ"
}
],
"word": "selfish"
}
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