self-seeker

American  

[self-see-ker] / ˈsɛlfˈsi kər /

noun

1. a person who primarily pursues their own interest or selfish ends.

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Etymology

Origin of self-seeker

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

There are other types,—the schemer and the self-seeker, whose matrimonial ventures are only intended to advance worldly interests.

From Project Gutenberg

He was no greedy self-seeker, and despised the avenues whereby many of his contemporaries advanced to wealth and position.

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He had been a self-seeker of that notorious kind that achieves worldly success without much thought for others.

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Personally Desportes appears to have been a self-seeker and a sycophant; not without good nature, but covetous, intriguing, corrupt, given to base compliances.

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Since the death of Charles de Buonaparte, the former had been represented at Versailles by Buttafuoco, Choiseul's unworthy instrument in acquiring the island, and now, as then, an uninfluential and consequential self-seeker.

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