Sĕlf'ish, a.
a. 1. Supremely caring for one's self; regarding one's own good, in disregard or at the expense of that of others.
They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. Caldecott.
Sense 2. Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. “The views of Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers.” Fleming.