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Unselfish: meaning and example

adjective · In the sense illustrated below

Considering other people’s needs as well as your own.

Example sentence

“It was unselfish of him to share the opportunity.”

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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