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self-seeking
[ self-see-king ]
noun
- the seeking of one's own interest or selfish ends.
adjective
- given to or characterized by self-seeking; selfish.
self-seeking
noun
- the act or an instance of seeking one's own profit or interest, esp exclusively
adjective
- having or showing an exclusive preoccupation with one's own profit or interest
a self-seeking attitude
Derived Forms
- ËŒ²õ±ð±ô´Ú-ˈ²õ±ð±ð°ì±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ±ð±ô´Ú-²õ±ð±ð°ìi²Ô²µÂ·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of self-seeking1
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Example Sentences
In this Amazon Prime Video version, Sheen's Prince Andrew is a more complex figure, self-seeking, emotionally deaf, ambitious, loyal to his own immediate family, distrustful of palace officials and with a desperate need for approval.
The result: Some patients are self-seeking these clinics instead of primary doctors prescribing the medication.
“He was intended to reflect a particular kind of privileged, self-seeking, self-interested, ambitious, untrustworthy, unprincipled politician,†said Herron, who attended Oxford University’s Balliol College at the same time as the current prime minister.
The Xis and Putins of the world mock us, all the while knowing that the self-seeking simpleton in the White House will “make deals†with them on his own behalf.
Look, America’s got big fat problems, perhaps chief among them is the weakness of our institutions -- institutions that have been strip mined for credibility by self-seeking politicians.
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