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  1. self-serving, self-seekingadjective

    interested only in yourself

    Synonyms:
    self-seeking

    Antonyms:
    unselfish

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  1. List of paraphrases for "self-serving":

    selfish, self-interested, egoistic, egotistical, self-seeking, interested

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#1616interested
#18281selfish
#64373egotistical
#144666egoistic

How to use self-serving in a sentence?

  1. Roger McNamee:

    Each proposal is transparently self-serving, while I applaud Zuckerberg for trying to engage policymakers, I do not think anyone should take these proposals seriously.

  2. Joe Manchin:

    I've had discussions with people that [have] been trusted, the same people that work with me on inflation, it's been a cross-section of really some good intended people … [who are] not self-serving.

  3. Seymour Hersh:

    This series of self-serving and inaccurate statements would create chaos in the weeks following.

  4. Chuck Grassley:

    They shouldn't be transparently self-serving attempts to justify whatever the president or an attorney general wants to do for political reasons.

  5. Cathryn Oakley:

    Make no mistake -- there is no crisis with transgender youth playing sports in Georgia. Decades of experience in states across the country show that this is a non-issue, self-serving politicians, catering to an extreme portion of their party's base, are showing that they're willing to harm vulnerable kids who just want to play with their friends.


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