self-serving

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(disapproving) interested only in gaining an advantage for yourself: He was a ruthless, self-serving politician.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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self-servingEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary self-servingEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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