self-seeker
Example Sentences
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The picture's weighty problem is to transform Midshipman Young from a snooty self-seeker to a true-blue ensign.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't believe that he is a self-seeker.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."
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This man whom she had trusted, this peerless champion of her cause, to be nothing but a self-seeker, an intriguer, who, to advance his own ends, had made a pawn of her.
From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael
