self-seeker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of self-seeker
First recorded in 1625–35
Example Sentences
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He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker."
From Time Magazine Archive
The picture's weighty problem is to transform Midshipman Young from a snooty self-seeker to a true-blue ensign.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't believe that he is a self-seeker.
From Time Magazine Archive
This year's liveliest comic novel dissects the endless ploys of a rich and artful British self-seeker to discomfit the U.S. colonials and get the girl.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Duke of Argyll, soldier, statesman, orator, shrewd self-seeker, represented the Whigs of Scotland; the honest, proud, pompous Duke of Somerset those of England.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy
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