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
The fault, he said, lay with Lululemon’s board, which he said lacked experience in creative businesses, was uninterested in product development and quality, and focused on “short-term, self-interested priorities.”
From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 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 criminalizing parody opens up enough dangerous doors that even the most self-interested people who oppose it are onto something, and it sure does seem like this law could criminalize parody.
From Slate • Apr. 25, 2025
Our Father takes their ironical and self-interested tone to indicate a lack of genuine grief.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
