self-seeker

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He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."

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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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The picture's weighty problem is to transform Midshipman Young from a snooty self-seeker to a true-blue ensign.

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There are other types,—the schemer and the self-seeker, whose matrimonial ventures are only intended to advance worldly interests.

From Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)