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
But I think what he’s really after is something more specifically self-interested.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2024
California as a Dickensian, self-interested world of excess and disorder?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024
The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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