self-seeking

Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

ˌself-ˈseeking adjective
doing things only because they will give you an advantage that other people do not have – used to show disapproval:
　 ▪ a self-seeking politician

adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ self-seeking politicians
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Above all the drift to a self-seeking, self-satisfying, self-fulfilling approach to relationships is where the rot is really setting in.
▪ Again, these relations were widely envisaged by social scientists as becoming individualistic, self-seeking, competitive and anonymous.
▪ Finniston maintains there is inescapable evidence that the corporate world has become more selfish and self-seeking.
▪ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
▪ Mary's self-seeking dandy courtiers soon made sure she signed it.
▪ The national welfare as understood by Congress may require a different attitude within its sphere from that of some self-seeking state.
▪ This might well be so with the control of aggression and of self-seeking behaviour.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  opportunism, self-interest, expedience, self-serving