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self-seeking

[self-see-king] / ˈsɛlfˈsi kɪŋ /


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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

Laura Wyron was quite right: by the time they had grown up the fogs of cowardice and prejudice and self-seeking would have disappeared for ever.

From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]