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  1. self-serving, self-seekingadjective

    interested only in yourself

    Synonyms:
    self-seeking

    Antonyms:
    unselfish

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  1. List of paraphrases for "self-serving":

    selfish, self-interested, egoistic, egotistical, self-seeking, interested

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#1616interested
#18281selfish
#64373egotistical
#144666egoistic

How to use self-serving in a sentence?

  1. Howard Stern:

    A more self-serving person would have gone all in on Donald Trump, i'd probably be Howard Stern or a Supreme Court justice by now.

  2. Patrick Lynch:

    This is why our streets have gotten out of control. New York legislators are busy boosting anti-cop hate online when New York legislators should be fixing the laws that New York legislators broke. We’re glad that New Yorkers sent a resounding message last week and again this week. We’re not going to let self-serving politicians divide us again.

  3. Sarah Lenti:

    Things were going downhill prior to election night, there were things happening internally that showed real division within the organization … The whole thing had become very self-serving.

  4. David Clohessy:

    The painfully and needlessly long, expensive and hurtful Milwaukee Catholic archdiocesan bankruptcy scandal has apparently been resolved by church officials basically cramming a self-serving plan down the throats of struggling abuse victims.

  5. Seymour Hersh:

    This series of self-serving and inaccurate statements would create chaos in the weeks following.


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