[
US
/ˈɛɫfɪʃ/
]
[ UK /ˈɛlfɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛlfɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
usually good-naturedly mischievous
elvish tricks
perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight
How To Use elfish In A Sentence
- Though he is faster to commit to Lola, he is selfish and spoiled.
- What a contrast that would be from the spoiled, overpaid and selfish athletes who normally grace the covers of sports magazines.
- When trouble comes they behave selfishly and horribly.
- Kira carried on walking, muttering angrily to herself about the absolute stupidity and selfishness of demons and mythical creatures.
- Spoiled, greedy, selfish, North Americans, of which I am one, fearful of someone taking a crumb from a banquet table is what we are. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Illegal Immigration and the Rule of Law
- When I do get in a lather, it's never my fault: it's the cyclists and pedestrians who are selfish and inconsiderate, not me.
- I just hadn't realised that so many straight men could be so selfish and unloving towards their offspring.
- In addition to receiving the best education that the South could offer blacks at that time, Ella inherited a powerful sense of service that made her civil rights efforts extraordinarily unselfish and untiring.
- You can be morally unimpeachable for entirely selfish reasons. Times, Sunday Times
- Theirs is a consummately selfish act, no less than a low-life betrayal of civilization.