ulterior motive

Example Sentences

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Sometimes a complainant has an ulterior motive or, sadly, is unwell.

From BBC

The only exception, he said, would be fraud, when someone is attempting to use religion to serve an ulterior motive.

From Seattle Times

“I have this need,” she admits in those pages, “to record … people’s words and gestures simply for their own sake, without any ulterior motive.”

From Los Angeles Times

But he defended Thomas and Crow, saying he believed there was no ulterior motive behind the real estate magnate's largesse over the decades.

From Salon

"I will state 100% that the George Takei joke that we have in the book has an ulterior motive."

From Salon