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• n  taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others
• s  interested only in yourself

• Love is never rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not prone to anger; neither does it brood over injuries.
• Cowl) who lets her husband (Henry Daniell) marry a self-seeking young girl and then gets him back again, it follows a familiar pattern, makes use of familiar patter.
• Yet the official opposition to Marcos remained fatally factious, divided into more than a dozen self-seeking groups, each of them tainted either by extremist positions .

• opportunism
• self-interest
• expedience
• self-serving

News & Articles

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• Pope Celebrates Christmas Mass at Vatican, Urges Faithful to Shun Pride, Deceit
  Pope Francis celebrated his first Christmas Eve Mass at the Vatican Tuesday, as Christians from across the globe gathered for religious services marking the birth of Jesus.In St. Peter's Basilica, the 77-year-old Argentine pontiff, who has stressed simplicity and humility during his brief papacy, urged people to turn away from pride, deceit and self-seeking. The leader of the world's 1.2 billion ...
  Dec. 25, 2013 - Voice of America

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Sydney Morning Herald
  The new age Benedict said he sought was one in which "love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure,faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty". "A new age in which hope...
• Robert Byrd in The Guardian
  In Congress, Byrd denounced the civil rights leader Martin Luther King as a "self-seeking rabble rouser", before turning into a leading backer of civil rights.
• Peter Costello in NEWS.com.au
  If the nation cannibalises itself into a whole lot of self-seeking for little areas, the overall benefit for the nation will be lost,Mr Costello told The Daily Telegraph newspaper.