Examples of 'self-serving' in a sentence
Meaning of "self-serving"
Self-serving describes actions or motives that are primarily concerned with one's own selfish interests or gains
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- Showing interest only in oneself (pursuing self-interest to the exclusion of other goals).
How to use "self-serving" in a sentence
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At least spare me the self-serving justifications.
It is self-serving and cathartic to the speaker.
Even if it was nakedly self-serving and insincere.
I am afraid my motives are slightly more self-serving.
All politicians are self-serving and corrupt.
Never been so happy to meet someone so self-serving.
Egocentric and self-serving data processing.
Everything you have done has been self-serving.
His politics are self-serving and opportunistic.
It argues that these letters are self-serving.
This is just self-serving black propaganda.
This stance is unreasonable and self-serving.
Takers are self-serving in their interactions.
Do not come to us again on so self-serving a matter.
Your self-serving nature never ceases to amaze me.
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Driven only by their self-serving interests.
And your self-serving law does nothing to curb it.
That is why enlargement is a self-serving objective.
Self-serving actions only leave others disappointed.
Modesty is a banal and self-serving device.
The self-serving behaviour of bureaucrats.
Your behavior is reckless and self-serving.
Your sorry is as self-serving as your seduction of my son.
Political correctness in the media is self-serving.
I am sick of your self-serving rationalizations.
Their approach to talks is entirely self-serving.
We recognize blatantly self-serving behavior when we see it.
It can even be said that it is self-serving.
By not making a self-serving spectacle of our own sadness.
A stupid leader is a committed self-serving leader.
The self-serving hedonist arrived to save the day.
Why are we allowing these self-serving bandits.
Evidence for a self-serving bias in the attribution of causality.
Who indulge in dangerous or self-serving activities.
The self-serving falsification of the historical record is widespread.
A better term would be self-serving propaganda.
It is a self-serving repentance that offers the possibility of survival.
Let us not be deceived by self-serving politicians.
The self-serving leaks have unveiled the truth.
I have no special interest or self-serving purpose.
There is nothing self-serving in the actions of the prophet.
Their love is superficial because it is self-serving.
Alex is unprincipled and self-serving and narcissistic.
I can not tell if your being sadistic or self-serving.
Than it was to be self-serving and cynical all the time.
It was totally and completely self-serving.
Both are motivated by self-serving interest and a pinch of ideology.
Anything else he told you is a self-serving lie.
He was killed by a self-serving bureaucracy within his own government.
The man is as ambitious as he is self-serving.
