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self-serving
adjective as in egotistic
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- affected
- aloof
- autocratic
- boasting
- bragging
- conceited
- egocentric
- egoistic
- egoistical
- egomaniacal
- egotistical
- haughty
- individualistic
- inflated
- inner-directed
- intimate
- intrinsic
- introverted
- isolated
- narcissistic
- obsessive
- opinionated
- personal
- prideful
- proud
- puffed up
- self-admiring
- self-centered
- self-important
- self-involved
- self-seeking
- snobbish
- stuck on oneself
- stuck-up
- superior
- swollen
- vain
- vainglorious
- wrapped up in oneself
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Example Sentences
Lovell does an excellent job deconstructing this self-serving myth.
The result is not only vindication, but also the self-serving sense that only you can save the republic.
Plenty of listeners will point to Paula as proof that Robin Thicke is a narcissistic, self-serving jerk.
“Catty, petty, and self-serving,” is how one of those way-right-of-center folk described Geithner to me.
There is, inevitably, a lot of self-serving humbug and a lot of tedious pap.
It was apparent that he had made a self-serving statement to Agent Quigley.
I think we colored people ought to be more self-reliant, more self-serving.
His testimony, though self-serving, was given due weight when urged in his own defense.
Through regulation, politics inserts itself as a self-serving factor in market transactions.
They often publish other people's self-serving communiqués without altering a word.
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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self-serving, such as: boastful, pompous, self-absorbed, selfish, subjective, and affected.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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