self-serving — İngilizce Sözlük

Sıfat

1. Showing interest only in oneself (pursuing self-interest to the exclusion of other goals).

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   egocentricself-centeredself-interested

   İlgili kelimeler

   selfish

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   "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 perspective," says Stallman, opening his speech.

   Don’t assume that the connotations of authority, history, scholarship, hallowed tradition and judiciousness in the word “Academy” actually fit this self-serving club.

   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 which either enriched shareholders or subsidised European rail fares. DfT left train operators to 'take the heat' - which they dutifully did, fearful of speaking up and 'biting the hand that feeds'.

   While the PSOE’s leader and caretaker prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, argues that the act of clemency would help promote coexistence after the tumultuous political and territorial crisis of 2017, his opponents have decried the move as a cynical and self-serving means of remaining in power.

Sıfat

1. concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   selfishegoisticegoisticalegocentricself-centeredself-centredself-seeking