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
What a vast assemblage, what a glorious companionship is that in which you and I, with our frailties, our shortcomings, our self-seeking, our worldliness, our distrust, our faithlessness, are fain boldly to claim a place!
From Sermons by J. B. Lightfoot
