self-interested
Example Sentences
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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
Both need each other to prosper and resent self-interested decisions their counterparts make that impact them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 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
Lawmakers insisted upon this independence to ensure that it could operate “unfettered by political dictates, self-interested industry pressure or blind consumer zeal.”
From Slate • Jul. 24, 2025
It may be sad but not surprising to learn that experts like Snyder can be self-interested to the point of deceit.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
