selfseeking

We are not selfseeking, our viewpoint is detached and we are completely acceptable.

The Winds of Change in the New Nations 1963

And this is even more difficult with a man like Hull, because, as Sumner Welles says: «Cordell Hull is the least selfseeking man I have ever known.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1945 - Presentation Speech 1945

With selfseeking and money-grubbing -- and in this new state we want people like you and your husband -- brave and resourceful -- enemies that have been, friends to be.

N or M Christie, Agatha 1941

Whitehall had been, during thirty years, a seminary of every public and private vice, and swarmed with lowminded, doubledealing, selfseeking politicians.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

The Dutch were regarded as selfseeking, grasping overreaching allies; the French were mortal enemies.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829