self-seeker
Example Sentences
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He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."
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This year's liveliest comic novel dissects the endless ploys of a rich and artful British self-seeker to discomfit the U.S. colonials and get the girl.
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I don't believe that he is a self-seeker.
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The picture's weighty problem is to transform Midshipman Young from a snooty self-seeker to a true-blue ensign.
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It was the evident magnanimity of the man, which assured the people that he was no self-seeker who would betray their interests for his own glory or rob them for his own gain.
From The Americanism of Washington by Van Dyke, Henry
