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self-seeking

[self-see-king] / ˈsɛlfˈsi kɪŋ /


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In this Amazon Prime Video version, Sheen's Prince Andrew is a more complex figure, self-seeking, emotionally deaf, ambitious, loyal to his own immediate family, distrustful of palace officials and with a desperate need for approval.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

The result: Some patients are self-seeking these clinics instead of primary doctors prescribing the medication.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024

Mishra’s Voltaire is a self-seeking capitalist entrepreneur, because, among other things, he established a watch factory at Ferney—as a refuge and asylum for persecuted Protestants.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

I suspect the play is really an indictment of both generations: the self-seeking individualism of Thatcher's children and their ineffectual offspring, who talk a good ethical game while lacking the capacity for action.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2012

Like Legge, Richmond was free from all self-seeking, honourable, upright, irreproachable, both in public and in private life.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva




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