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
He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."
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
And the kind of happiness I thus win is one that I estimate far more highly than the happiness which contents the ordinary self-seeker.
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Hauptmann, Gerhart
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