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self-server
noun as in fortune hunter
Weak matches
Example Sentences
No, the country elected a self-server in chief and he is sharing the wealth.
Mr Syed purchased his paid-for tweet via Twitter's self-server ad platform for an undisclosed sum.
He stirs disdain in opposition spectators and a particularly complex ambivalence among his own team's fans, who see him as the embodiment of Mourinho's determined, forceful style but also as a self-server who placed his own irritation with Nemanja Vidic in a Champions League final ahead of the club's raging urge to land the prize.
Let no self-server general trust betray, No picque, no party, bar the public way.
Purposely avoiding all attraction that may savour of extravagance, patiently subduing every tone and every hue to the aspect of those whom we meet daily in our thoroughfares, I have shown in Robert Beaufort the man of decorous phrase and bloodless action—the systematic self-server—in whom the world forgive the lack of all that is generous, warm, and noble, in order to respect the passive acquiescence in methodical conventions and hollow forms.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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