Example sentences for: self-interested

How can you use “self-interested” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The other is ruthless and self-interested in a Thatcherite vein but nonetheless sympathetic in the end.

  • You write that I am "quite good at ferreting out" instances of "instrumentalization of [the Holocaust] toward cheap and self-interested ends."

  • In the early Republic, parties were anathema, viewed as self-interested cabals whose aims conflicted with an otherwise discernible common good.

  • Yet Starr, too, has run a few novel and self-interested public interest theories up the flagpole, such as his claim that his leaking (if it exists, which it doesn't) is covered by a rule that allows prosecutors to reassure the public about the integrity of an investigation.

  • Paul Gigot ( NewsHour ) worries that eliminating soft money will induce self-interested money-men to fund their own commercials, thereby permitting private donors to set the agendas in congressional races.


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