The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-seeker
Self-seeker \Self"-seek`er\, n. One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure.
Wiktionary
self-seeker
n. A self-seeking person.
WordNet
self-seeker
n. a person who places expediency above principle [syn: opportunist]
Usage examples of "self-seeker".
But if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties, of Carolina or Cuba, but who announces a law that disposes these particulars, and so certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player, bankrupts every self-seeker, and apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,- that man liberates me.