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self-serving

[ self-sur-ving ]

adjective

  1. preoccupied with one's own interests, often disregarding the truth or the interests, well-being, etc., of others.
  2. serving to further one's own selfish interests.


self-serving

adjective

  1. habitually seeking one's own advantage, esp at the expense of others
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-serving1

First recorded in 1900–05
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The coroner said in her concluding remarks: "His self-serving cowardice, which persists to this day, demonstrates a blatant disregard for Kimberley."

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This self-serving denial, Frecknall’s revival suggests, doesn’t bode well for Stella’s own future.

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But in making Wynona so belligerently flawed and River so narcissistically self-serving, FastHorse diminishes our concern for the outcome of their battle.

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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.

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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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