self-seeking
Example Sentences
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The result: Some patients are self-seeking these clinics instead of primary doctors prescribing the medication.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Mishra’s Voltaire is a self-seeking capitalist entrepreneur, because, among other things, he established a watch factory at Ferney—as a refuge and asylum for persecuted Protestants.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
"We don't have time to promote self-seeking individuals," said Mr Masina curtly, when I asked him if he was accusing the League's former leader, Julius Malema, of being a crook.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2013
I suspect the play is really an indictment of both generations: the self-seeking individualism of Thatcher's children and their ineffectual offspring, who talk a good ethical game while lacking the capacity for action.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2012
It was one of those gracious days when the world seems steeped in peace, when bitterness and unrest and self-seeking "fold their tents like the Arabs, and as silently steal away."
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
