Self-serving Sentence Examples

She's a conniving, self-serving, arrogant creature.  Heartless, too.

Lying that is consistently self-serving with no prosocial motive is a serious issue.

Now his father was putting a damper on it with his all consuming, self-serving plots.

I can't picture him fighting or picking on anyone, but if I closely consider the signs, I can see his tendency to take advantage of others, if only in a self-serving way.

He grumbled something about getting one of those "take a number" dispensers the big city post offices had, right below their self-serving signs applauding their high level of service.

The alternative – that Death might see Rhyn as a viable leader for the Council – was inconceivable.  No self-serving, reckless, half-evil being could be entrusted with the fate of humanity!  Baffled by the deity's bizarre visit, Kris pushed the memories out of his mind.  He had to find Rhyn.  He picked up his rucksack and joined Kiki outside the tent.  Kiki stood before a portal on the dark beach.

To illustrate the self-serving bias with regard to success, I will draw on my own experiences.

The Washington Consensus was, I think, a shallow and self-serving policy menu opportunistically foisted upon poor countries by the rich.

The often self-serving memoirs and analyzes of later years have by no means the same immediacy.

You can't imagine how someone so repellent and self-serving could even manage to get married.

The prophets of the Old Testament were not self-serving.

You disgust me because your aims are entirely self-serving and selfish.

Now, you might say this is rather self-serving, even cynical.

A visit would not have prospered, not least because of the widespread conviction in Washington that Wilson's peace initiative was largely self-serving.

Lewis is quick to argue that enacted by Antonio, this final attribute becomes entirely self-serving.

Using a bunch of superlatives only makes you seem self-serving.

You ca n't imagine how someone so repellent and self-serving could even manage to get married.

Complication is self-serving for an industry bent on technical advance, but of no help to the confused purchaser.

This is a self-serving argument to fog the real issues involved.

Even so, the self-serving natures of most of Mandy 's reviews say a great deal about the nature of the book itself.

The Executive Yuan must deal with this issue cautiously and seriously, thus we are not simply making self-serving statements.

I bypassed appealing to conscience in favor of pointing out various self-serving reasons to take organics seriously.

Our aim is to persuade European governments to put people 's health before the self-serving interests of the aviation industry.

Possibly self-serving sterling we found six do away with.

A visit would not have prospered, not least because of the widespread conviction in Washington that Wilson 's peace initiative was largely self-serving.

This is particularly remarkable given the almost continued decimation of this stricken people and land by a succession of brutal, self-serving rulers.

She's drop-dead gorgeous but she is also self-serving, narcissistic and a little nasty.

Is this the speech you prepared for your sister, or is it merely self-serving advice?