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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I don't believe that he is 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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He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."
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Since the death of Charles de Buonaparte, the former had been represented at Versailles by Buttafuoco, Choiseul's unworthy instrument in acquiring the island, and now, as then, an uninfluential and consequential self-seeker.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
