self-seeking

Speech parts

1. self-seeking - Noun

2. self-seeking - Adjective

3. self-seeking - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish.

The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

expedience self-interest opportunism self-serving egoist proud ambition vain selfish mercenary greedy selfishness egoism pompous conceited
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Antonyms

beneficent good passive humanitarian useless casual
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Hypernyms

selfishness

Examples

Emerson saw the removal of people from their homeland, the treatment of slaves, and the self-seeking benefactors of slaves as gross injustices. Source: Internet

However, when sexual desire is separated from God's love, it becomes disordered and self-seeking. Source: Internet

His characters are often unhappy or, at least, unsatisfied, in many cases holding on to idealisms in spite of an otherwise chaotic and ruthless world, and often troubled by their own self-seeking or violent actions, even as they undertake them. Source: Internet

"But he was kind, honest, and not self-seeking." Source: Internet

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Source: Internet

When they demanded and Whitefield refused that he preach only in their churches, they attacked him as a “ sorcerer” and a “vain-glorious, self-seeking, puffed-up creature”. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

self-seeded self-seeding self-seeker self-segment self-segmentation self-select