self-interested
Example Sentences
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The legal problem arises if it fails to inform its customers about its self-interested conflicts that steer its recommendations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Your wife is speaking from her own sense of morality and justice, but she’s also speaking from a self-interested perspective.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
In 2018, voters there narrowly approved Proposition 4, taking the map-drawing process away from self-interested lawmakers and creating an independent commission to handle redistricting.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025
But I think what he’s really after is something more specifically self-interested.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2024
But noticing where the conventional wisdom may be false—noticing, perhaps, the contrails of sloppy or self-interested thinking—is a nice place to start asking questions.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
