self-serving
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6.4
- adjective
- /ˌsɛlfˈsɜrvɪŋ/
- Offensive
:
interesado
- The politician's self-serving remarks during the debate revealed that his true priorities were himself, not the public.
- self-serving bias
- self-serving attributions
- merely self-serving
And people will attack it as being shallow or self-serving or corrupt even.
- And people will attack it as being shallow or self-serving or corrupt even.
- I thought that this approach is easy, self-serving, dehumanizing, and it reveals nothing.
- This is all true, but it's not just a narcissist, a self-serving, greedy egotistical type of ego.
- Most of the content that I see on every platform is so self-serving.
- The idea that you switch categories based on one drop of blood from some other group, That is a self-serving racist notion.
- He's highly self-serving and he doesn't really respond to things that he doesn't agree with.
- Even the kind of principal agent set up exists because we assume we're opportunistic, self-serving.
- Again, that value as well as many others is the most self-serving value.
- But they're naive, they're foolish, they're self-serving, but they're not full frontal toxic.
- We in our country, we seem to be more self-serving than ever before.
- Thank you guys for joining me for this very self-serving tool tip.
- But keep in mind that spending was self-serving getting them.
Examples
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I'm afraid my motives are slightly more self-serving.
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Her husband had his share of failings, incompetence, and a self-serving attitude among them.
Fiction book (1994) -
That sounds a bit self-serving and perhaps it is.
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We in our country, we seem to be more self-serving than ever before.
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It's actually a self-serving gift.
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You must admit the man is self-serving.
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We live in a world every day where people are self-serving and often dishonest.
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But Allegra had taken one look and seen straight through the woman to her self-serving core.
Fiction book (1991) -
It was completely insincere and self-serving.
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In the story "The Taste of Metal," Richard fully indulges the self-serving and increasingly self-defining nature of his drinking.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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1.0
Caring only about yourself and not about other people
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3.9
A person who is only interested in their own needs and not in other people's feelings
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6.3
A person who thinks only about their own needs and not about other people
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6.6
Seeing yourself as much more important than other people
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5.8
Acting as if you are better than other people
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7.4
Thinking only of oneself and not caring about other people's feelings
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7.0
Being only interested in your own needs and feelings
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7.4
Caring only about your own needs and wants
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7.2
Thinking you are more important than other people
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6.9
A person who cares only about their own gain and ignores other people
Thinking only about yourself and not about other people
Someone who cares only about their own wants, even if others suffer
Antonyms
How Selfish
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word self-serving is made of self ('oneself') and serving, from serve ('to help or give'), and it paints a simple picture of someone who 'serves' their own needs first. That's why self-serving means acting only for your own benefit, often without care for other people.