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Meanings of self-seeking in English
Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others.
Synonyms
Examples for "opportunism"
Examples for "opportunism"
1
It remained the capital of the moderate, traditional attitude and religious opportunism.
2
In three weeks Cameron will suffer the consequences of his opposition opportunism.
3
Critics accused him of acting out of political opportunism rather than principle.
4
Life, being in itself indifferent, the whole question was one of opportunism.
5
What began in January with understandable grievances has become transparently cynical opportunism.
1
Wherever you look in the squad there's evidence of expedience and compromise.
2
I am sure you will be guided by expedience in this matter.
3
Likewise, to yield to the demand is an act of deep expedience.
4
The mother, taking a broader view of expedience and duty, forbade them.
5
What but the expedience of a law that will never be executed?
1
Working in mutual self-interest the world community would have achieved Sustainable Growth.
2
Against our nature, self-interest has been given too high a moral priority.
3
The WTO talks, it said, have been driven by power and self-interest.
4
Global alliances can't be constructed on the basis of narrow national self-interest.
5
Why are our MPs putting blatant self-interest ahead of the Brexit vote?
Usage of self-seeking in English
1
We have become a self-seeking society that is never satisfied, he says.
2
I have listened to such a story this morning of brutal self-seeking!
3
In all your actions, you should avoid the least trace of self-seeking.
4
In all this there is nothing of a self-seeking or covetous kind.
5
But Philip was only less weary than Edward of the self-seeking pontiff.
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But I do not blame you, we are all selfish and self-seeking.
7
But he was self-seeking, foolishly vain, and madly ambitious of military glory.
8
You looked for wile, for cunning, for self-seeking,-andthey were not there.
9
For that proud, greedy, selfish, self-seeking spirit would turn heaven into hell.
10
There must be no brutality anywhere, no self-seeking, no ambition, no instability.
11
There is nothing morally wrong in the self-seeking of the animal.
12
And if anybody in the world is free from self-seeking it is you.
13
There was self-seeking in my heart, and I think shame of it now.
14
In this journey I committed many faults of self-love and self-seeking.
15
The self-seeking motives of many Protestant princes had disgusted the nobles.
16
Evil consists in the elevation of selfhood, which springs from desire, into self-seeking.
Frequent collocations
Translations for self-seeking
Portuguese
Catalan
Self-seeking through the time