self-seeking
Example Sentences
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The result: Some patients are self-seeking these clinics instead of primary doctors prescribing the medication.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
Mishra’s Voltaire is a self-seeking capitalist entrepreneur, because, among other things, he established a watch factory at Ferney—as a refuge and asylum for persecuted Protestants.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017
The play was a savage satire on England, depicting the ups and downs of a self-seeking Midlands family.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2014
I suspect the play is really an indictment of both generations: the self-seeking individualism of Thatcher's children and their ineffectual offspring, who talk a good ethical game while lacking the capacity for action.
From The Guardian • May 25, 2012
The civil order, as now established in the south of France, evidently rested in the religious order, and the maintenance of this required hands more vigorous and watchful than those of the self-seeking prelates.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
