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Difference Between Ungrateful and Selfish

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Ungrateful

Not feeling or exhibiting gratitude, thanks, or appreciation.

Selfish

Concerned chiefly or excessively with oneself, and having little regard for others
A selfish child who wouldn't share toys.

Ungrateful

Not agreeable or pleasant; repellent
"I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure" (Abraham Lincoln).

Selfish

Showing or arising from an excessive concern with oneself and a lack of concern for others
A selfish whim.

Ungrateful

Not grateful; not expressing gratitude.
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Selfish

The present quote doesn't illustrate the meaning very well.Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.

Ungrateful

A person who fails to show gratitude; an ingrate.

Selfish

Having regard for oneself above others’ well-being.

Ungrateful

Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful.

Selfish

(video game characters) Relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.
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Ungrateful

Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear.

Selfish

Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions.
In that throng of selfish hearts untrue.

Ungrateful

Not feeling or showing gratitude;
Ungrateful heirs
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!

Selfish

Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.
Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers.

Ungrateful

Disagreeable;
I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure

Selfish

Concerned chiefly or only with yourself;
Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

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