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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I don't believe that he is a self-seeker.
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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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He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."
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He was of an innocent life, no busy-body, nor self-seeker: neither touchy nor critical: what fell from him was very inoffensive, if not very edifying.
From A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn
