Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having self-interest; particularly concerned for one's self; selfish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.
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Examples
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In truth, most people's politics are self-interested, which is precisely what defines the two main parties' "core vote".
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When asked by a university researcher in the early 1930s why they serviced customers of other races, a white prostitute and a black prostitute gave similarly self-interested answers.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Thanks to the generous support of billionaires and self-interested corporations, think tanks have seeded our political discourse with a lot of mistaken ideas about government spending and deficits.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Five Things Everybody Knows About Deficits... That Are Completely Untrue RJ 2011
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New Jersey's Republican governor Chris Christie is attempting the same, telling a conservative conference Wednesday, "I'm attacking the leadership of the union because they're greedy, and they're selfish and they're self-interested."
Robert Reich: The Republican Strategy Robert Reich 2011
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Thanks to the generous support of billionaires and self-interested corporations, think tanks have seeded our political discourse with a lot of mistaken ideas about government spending and deficits.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Five Things Everybody Knows About Deficits... That Are Completely Untrue RJ 2011
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Capping off the trend was a Supreme Court decision last year disarming the "honest services" blunderbuss, which threatened to turn any self-interested behavior by a CEO into a crime.
Angelo Mozilo's Story Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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He remained blocked at every step by the familiar coalition of opponents—the opposition majority in the new Duma, defiant governors, hostile bureaucrats, and self-interested business elites.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The solutions will come when we stop demonizing the teaching profession as a monolith of self-interested adults who don't care about children.
Sam Chaltain: In Wisconsin, Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right Sam Chaltain 2011
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As the late Amos Elon put it in The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743–1933, “The history of Jewish assimilation, not only in Germany, has long been a subversive subject, which the assimilated have suppressed so as not to draw attention to themselves, and the Zionists, for equally self-interested reasons, have distorted.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The solutions will come when we stop demonizing the teaching profession as a monolith of self-interested adults who don't care about children.
Sam Chaltain: In Wisconsin, Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right Sam Chaltain 2011
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