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Selfless: meaning and example

adjective · In the sense illustrated below

Putting another person’s needs before your own interests.

Example sentence

“It was selfless of her to give up her seat.”

An illustrative sentence written for Ikigain.

This example illustrates a positive sense or context. The same word can have other meanings; choose it for what you actually want to say.

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