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
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
I don't believe that he is 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
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.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
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