self-seeker
Example Sentences
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The picture's weighty problem is to transform Midshipman Young from a snooty self-seeker to a true-blue ensign.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I don't believe that he is a self-seeker.
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Most men recognized that he was nothing but a self-seeker, and there were few who trusted him.
From The Odds And Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
