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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-seeking
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ self-seeking politicians
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Above all the drift to a self-seeking, self-satisfying, self-fulfilling approach to relationships is where the rot is really setting in.
▪ Again, these relations were widely envisaged by social scientists as becoming individualistic, self-seeking, competitive and anonymous.
▪ Finniston maintains there is inescapable evidence that the corporate world has become more selfish and self-seeking.
▪ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
▪ Mary's self-seeking dandy courtiers soon made sure she signed it.
▪ The national welfare as understood by Congress may require a different attitude within its sphere from that of some self-seeking state.
▪ This might well be so with the control of aggression and of self-seeking behaviour.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-seeking

Self-seeking \Self"-seek`ing\, a. Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish.
--Arbuthnot.

Self-seeking

Self-seeking \Self"-seek`ing\, n. The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-seeking

"a seeking after one's own benefit (before those of others)," 1580s, from self + seeking, verbal noun from seek. As an adjective, from 1620s.

Wiktionary
self-seeking

a. 1 Mindful of, or promoting only ones own interests 2 (cx military of a missile English) That searches for a target automatically

WordNet
self-seeking

  1. adj. interested only in yourself [syn: self-serving]

  2. n. taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others [syn: opportunism, self-interest, expedience]

Usage examples of "self-seeking".

Lesbia, once married to a worthy man, such a man as Lord Hartfield, for instance, would soon rise to a higher level than that Belgravian swamp over which the malarian vapours of falsehood, and slander, and self-seeking, and prurient imaginings hang dense and thick.

After sitting through so many party debates, so much transparent self-seeking, and so much ungenerous opposition as I cannot help seeing in Parliament, how refreshing to see, among such men as I have met to-day, the pure, genuine public spirit which Jane first showed me the example of in the midst of her hardest trials.

You may call him a paederast if you choose, but he is the only man of his word I know among all that rotten bunch of self-seeking politicians.

In your self-seeking, ye creating ones, there is the foresight and foreseeing of the pregnant!

As regards sycophants, self-seeking persons are oft in attendance upon the noble and the mighty.