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self-serving
[ self-sur-ving ]
adjective
- preoccupied with one's own interests, often disregarding the truth or the interests, well-being, etc., of others.
- serving to further one's own selfish interests.
self-serving
adjective
- habitually seeking one's own advantage, esp at the expense of others
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-serving1
Example Sentences
The coroner said in her concluding remarks: "His self-serving cowardice, which persists to this day, demonstrates a blatant disregard for Kimberley."
This self-serving denial, Frecknall’s revival suggests, doesn’t bode well for Stella’s own future.
But in making Wynona so belligerently flawed and River so narcissistically self-serving, FastHorse diminishes our concern for the outcome of their battle.
In 1796, George Washington warned us in his Farewell Address that the nation would suffer without an educated electorate and with the rise of a self-serving despot who rejects public liberty.
They will be all too ready to recruit sympathetic partners in uniform willing and able to abet their self-serving political desires.
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