self-preserving
- a word derived from self-preservation.
Example Sentences
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Then again, all the bickering, dawdling, and reliably self-preserving ignorance toward the catastrophe nipping at their heels is the point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
How then do we balance our social need for a certain degree of mutually presumed integrity with a self-preserving requirement for some street smart skepticism of Greeks bearing gifts?
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2023
The ability to build a team and take the risks he did required an incredible temperament and sense of doing the right thing and not the self-preserving thing.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2020
None of the other women had children, by self-preserving design, and despite intense emotional ambivalence.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
The thing to be was careful and self-preserving.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
