Adjective : selfish motives.    From Dictionary.com. 

Mightn’t we all close ranks and tut-tut-tut those women who persist in selfishly pursuing their own pleasures at cost to their children?.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Was Drinking When I Wrote This | Her Bad Mother] Reference

Obama and Hillary both so "selfishly" agreed to not count Michigan and Florida.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Plurality Of Dems Says Victory Delivered By Super-Delegates "Not Legitimate"] Reference

It is just 'selfishly' laying down and tries to get itself out of this mess with the best it can do.    From Wordnik.com.  [China - "non"-helpful?] Reference

To love selfishly is to blot out all the beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference

So do families cultivate selfishly family interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

Here we work so selfishly, there all work is worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference

No no no, I do not mean this as selfishly as it sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace] Reference

"" You have to manage your career selfishly, '' he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Year Of The Employee] Reference

I want above all things to cease dwelling so selfishly upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference

"Oh, somebody will see you and take you off," he said, selfishly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

"It would be great for us, speaking selfishly," Letterman responded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keith Olbermann On Jeb Bush: 'Hey, It May Be Different This Time!' (VIDEO)] Reference

So does the egoist selfishly dig about and fertilize the number One.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

The minutes, selfishly thoughtless of all but themselves, fly rapidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

It was a silent teamwork; each working selfishly towards the same goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swan Song] Reference

"I realized that I could either live selfishly, or for others," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Douglas LaBier: How to Live an 'Inside-Out' Life] Reference

"I was so selfishly taken up with my own happiness that I didn't think!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference

They were not selfishly considering the entire possession of the treasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference

But I have to say selfishly, yes, I was watching and tracking very carefully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana Nyad, 60, Swimming From Cuba To Florida] Reference

I had thought, selfishly enough, only of what she had said about my own peril.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Zara] Reference

It is an equation with infinite rewards, and selfishly, I get to partake in this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seema Jilani: An American Doctor Packing Scrubs for Afghanistan] Reference

He selfishly hugged to him the misfortune of his own loss and gave no heed to Ruth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

I only thought of her husband, and I selfishly shrank from encouraging her to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

But the nations continue to exist, and they often cultivate selfishly national interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

We answer, Because they selfishly and persistently limited his life and labours to his own land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

Certainly none of our readers will selfishly continue any food she feels will make her baby cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

They say he's selfishly clinging to the seat, undermining any chance the party has of reclaiming the Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missouri Grieves For A Friend] Reference

She thinks she is mourning, but she is too selfishly wrapped up in her own grief to see the sorrow of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Little Brown House] Reference

Some boats were launched and selfishly filled, but the captain apparently thought there was no cause for alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

Secondly, and more selfishly, there are a lot of new people who will show up over this weekend who haven't been here before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilco Takes Over An Art Museum This Weekend] Reference

Are parents acting selfishly and should they think much harder about the ramifications of despatching a sick child to school?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who sends their sick child to school?] Reference

The farmer, the stockman, the lumberman, and the miner has each been selfishly doing his share in the destruction of the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

I love it -- selfishly, if you like -- for the joy of giving, but I think that my fortune is not very badly placed in my hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In fact, I will selfishly be praying for the least relevant nominee to win top honors just so I can still love Kanye West and feel cool.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grammys Get a Clue] Reference

Always meek and lowly in her desires, feeling that any place was good enough for her, she was never selfishly anxious on her own account.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

And then you must not hold it selfishly for your own gratification, but let it overflow to the hungry, thirsty, fainting world about you.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference