self-serving
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self-serv·ing
(sĕlf′sûr′vĭng)adj.
1. Serving one's own interests, especially without concern for the needs or interests of others.
2. Exhibiting concern solely for one's own interests: a speech full of self-serving comments.
self′-serv′ing·ly adv.
self-serving
adj
habitually seeking one's own advantage, esp at the expense of others
self′-serv′ing
adj.
1. preoccupied with one's own interests and often disregarding the truth or the interests, well-being, etc., of others.
2. serving to further one's own selfish interests.
[1900–05]
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Adj. | 1. | self-serving - interested only in yourself selfish - concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman |
self-serving
adjectiveConcerned only with oneself:
egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistic, egotistical, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-involved, selfish, self-seeking.
Idiom: wrapped up in oneself.
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