self-seeking
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In this Amazon Prime Video version, Sheen's Prince Andrew is a more complex figure, self-seeking, emotionally deaf, ambitious, loyal to his own immediate family, distrustful of palace officials and with a desperate need for approval.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024
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
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
Never has the world needed precepts of daring, courage, individualism more than in this age of cowardly self-seeking, and the sleek promises of altruism and its soulless well-being.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
