self-interested
Example Sentences
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Both need each other to prosper and resent self-interested decisions their counterparts make that impact them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
The fault, he said, lay with Lululemon’s board, which he said lacked experience in creative businesses, was uninterested in product development and quality, and focused on “short-term, self-interested priorities.”
From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026
In 2018, voters there narrowly approved Proposition 4, taking the map-drawing process away from self-interested lawmakers and creating an independent commission to handle redistricting.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025
Lawmakers insisted upon this independence to ensure that it could operate “unfettered by political dictates, self-interested industry pressure or blind consumer zeal.”
From Slate • Jul. 24, 2025
The problem with someone who is transparently self-interested is that the extent of his interests is never clear.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
