as in opportunist
one who does things only for his own benefit and with little regard for right and wrong
he's a self-seeker who is nice only to people who can do him favors
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Thus the self-seekers and the doctrinaires were drawn together into an alliance to maintain the status quo, and all its abuses and inequalities were made sacrosanct.
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Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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“Self-seeker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-seeker. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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