Word info Synonyms Antonyms

self-serving

Speech parts

1. self-serving - Adjective

2. self-serving - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

interested only in yourself

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

self serving

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Show all antonyms

Examples

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. Franklin D. Roosevelt

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. Mark Strand

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime. J. G. Ballard

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth. Che Guevara

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. John Mayer

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. Ginny Brown-Waite

Close letter words and terms