The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TAKING which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2012.
Selfish act crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TAKING | 100 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Selfish act
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- taking
- skank
- hog
- mean
- pig
- self-seeking
- angle
- base
- calculating
- ring
- use
- self-interest
Crossword Answer definitions
TAKING verb- To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To remove.
- To have sex with.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To grasp or grip.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To visit; to include in a course of travel.
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To consume.
- To experience, undergo, or endure.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- (of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- (of a ship) To let in (water).
- To require.
- To proceed to fill.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To assume or perform (a form or role).
- To bind oneself by.
- To move into.
- To go into, through, or along.
- To have and use one's recourse to.
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- (now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To accept as an input to a relation.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To engage, take hold or have effect.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- (possibly obsolete) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
- An intensifier.
- To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
- (obsolete outside dialectal and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
- The act by which something is taken.
- A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
- A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
- (in the plural) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
- Alluring; attractive.
- Infectious; contagious.
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