self-seeker
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The picture's weighty problem is to transform Midshipman Young from a snooty self-seeker to a true-blue ensign.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't believe that he is a self-seeker.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."
From Time Magazine Archive
If you'll come back with me up the elevator I'll tell him he's a self-seeker and selfish, and with no thought above his own interests.
From Lion and the Unicorn by Davis, Richard Harding
