self-seeker
Example Sentences
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This year's liveliest comic novel dissects the endless ploys of a rich and artful British self-seeker to discomfit the U.S. colonials and get the girl.
From Time Magazine Archive
The picture's weighty problem is to transform Midshipman Young from a snooty self-seeker to a true-blue ensign.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't believe that he is a self-seeker.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."
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He was no greedy self-seeker, and despised the avenues whereby many of his contemporaries advanced to wealth and position.
From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles
