Example Sentences

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No. Rather are they stuck in, and prefer to remain in, an infinite loop of unfettered self-absorption, self-promotion, self-interestedness, self-indulgence and self-aggrandizement.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2023

Their hermetic self-reliance and self-interestedness, for all its ideological implications, are the dramatic reflection of a fictional world that’s thinly and lazily conceived.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2019

Blessed be God! that which makes us capable of vicious self-interestedness, capacitates us also for disinterestedness.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

People are your friends from pure friendship and love, not from sponging self-interestedness.

From My Brilliant Career by Franklin, Miles

While acknowledging the generous sympathy of many Frenchmen for their struggle, Americans need not blind themselves to the self-interestedness of the French government.

From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)