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self-seeker
noun as in ingrate
Strong match
Weak match
Example Sentences
There are other types,—the schemer and the self-seeker, whose matrimonial ventures are only intended to advance worldly interests.
He was no greedy self-seeker, and despised the avenues whereby many of his contemporaries advanced to wealth and position.
He had been a self-seeker of that notorious kind that achieves worldly success without much thought for others.
Personally Desportes appears to have been a self-seeker and a sycophant; not without good nature, but covetous, intriguing, corrupt, given to base compliances.
The method of the political boss, the aristocrat, the self-seeker, the monopolist—even in the use of thugs, private armies, spies, and provocateurs—differs little from the methods proposed by Bakounin in his Alliance.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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