self-seekingformaldisapproving

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Selfishness
egocentric
egocentrically
egocentricity
egoism
egoistic
egotistically
hoggish
hoggishly
inconsiderate
inconsiderately
self
self-absorbed
self-absorption
self-centred
self-centredly
self-seeking
self-servingly
selfish
selfishly
selfishness

Examples of self-serving

self-serving
Factions within parties, alignments and realignments within parties, and self-serving coalitions further worsened matters.
The imperial regime's account is, of course, self-serving and must be viewed within the context of the time.
Such terms hardly befit a collaborator of empire or a spineless, self-serving monarch.
Secondly, they permit citizens to hold their representatives accountable and to punish them if they enrich themselves in corrupt or self-serving ways.
Process, not outcomes (especially outcomes sought by self-serving groups elsewhere), is what we should aim at in countries that lack democratic ways.
We can equally dismiss a posteriori rationalizations of design intent as self-serving, and atomistic efforts to include intent as overly strong representation.
Indeed, as she mentioned earlier, prudence is about right reasoning, in order to apply good means to good ends, not necessarily self-serving ends.
And yet it does not seem plausible to attribute to mere self-serving cynicism all complaint that appeals to such principles.
Second, the existence of the stated purpose does not necessarily make faith ultimately self-serving.
Be assured that this is no plodding monograph with self-serving accounts of project after project.
All she need do is quote them, for her passages of choice are markedly "muscular," self-serving, and absurd.
To this extent, it is not so much a question of physicians making intentional, self-serving decisions.
It would also be a nightmare, as perceptual error and self-serving criteria made indeterminate lights seem green enough to go for orthogonal travelers.
They sought to tie interest to duty through institutional mechanisms to thwart destructive, self-serving passions and to secure the public good.
It is therefore particularly unforgivable for the archaeological establishment to exploit these privileges in self-serving ways.
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