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Definition of the day : « self-seeking »

  • adj egotistic
Example sentences :
  • She had learned to know that Althea was not only snobbish, but self-seeking as well.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • Many men, Agostino, enter the Church out of motives of self-seeking.
  • Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
  • But now the voice broke in again, apologetic, solicitous, self-seeking.
  • Extract from : « Hidden Water » by Dane Coolidge
  • There is an earnestness in high purpose no self-seeking could ever counterfeit.
  • Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
  • It is in self-seeking and advancement that we narrow our faculties and imprison our natures.
  • Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
  • Polite, certainly; nothing more so; but what a rebuke to self-seeking!
  • Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • But he is true and honest, and affectionate, and is by no means exacting or self-seeking.
  • Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope
  • In all this there is nothing of a self-seeking or covetous kind.
  • Extract from : « An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation » by Thorstein Veblen
  • He will certainly become proud, arrogant, self-seeking, and 575tyrannical.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • Officiousness is self-seeking dressed up in the uniform of service.
  • Extract from : « Practical Ethics » by William DeWitt Hyde