Example sentences for: self-serving

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

  • If people are unhappy now--thanks to contentious, self-serving news writers who are more bent on garnering attention through controversy than they are through enlightenment--they are going to be miserable when they realize what they have done to themselves.

  • Such self-serving apologies are more transparent when the stakes are higher.

  • Readers knew there was going to be a fair measure of boasting and self-serving in that section.

  • The paper said this speech would be taken by his critics as evidence that he was "hungry for power, self-serving and determined that the interests of his party should prevail."

  • 3) His vendetta spin (which the New York Times called "self-serving") curdled the turn-the-other-cheek spin.


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