self-serving
Showing interest only in oneself (pursuing self-interest to the exclusion of other goals).
Adjective
- Showing interest only in oneself (pursuing self-interest to the exclusion of other goals).
- "Most of the time when people consider the question of what rules society should have for using software, the people considering it are from software companies, and they consider the question from a self-serving...
- Don’t assume that the connotations of authority, history, scholarship, hallowed tradition and judiciousness in the word “Academy” actually fit this self-serving club. - 2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of...
- For entirely self-serving reasons, ministers and civil servants never dispelled the public belief that uncaring 'fat cat' privateers or foreign state railways were in control, ramping up fares and creaming off profits...
Synonyms: egocentric self-centered self-interested egoistical every man for himself idiocentric individualistic interested porkish reptilian selfish selflike selfsome self-absorbed self-minded self-seeking self-serving solipsistic
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English serving English self-serving From self- + serving.