self-seeker
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He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."
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The picture's weighty problem is to transform Midshipman Young from a snooty self-seeker to a true-blue ensign.
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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.
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I don't believe that he is a self-seeker.
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Burleigh, who misjudged him as a dreamer and self-seeker, not only refused to help him at the court but successfully opposed his advancement by Elizabeth.
From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by Long, William Joseph
