Sentence examples for self-seeking greed from inspiring English sources
After all, Thatcherism was an extension of the kind of hypocrisy and self-seeking greed that the Profumo affair best summed up and temporarily ended (Report, 20 December).
The majority of these aristocrats were self-seeking and incompetent.
This is true, but not in the self-seeking way Walpole implies.
People say my writing is dreadful, pretentious, self-seeking shit – they say it a lot.
(Newspapers, it should be said have no such self-seeking agendas or blind spots).
"The Baby Boomers are the most self-centered, self-seeking, self-interested, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing generation in American history," he declared.
The "natural condition" of man, said Hobbes, is self-seeking and competitive.
All but his most faithful or self-seeking disciples were disillusioned by his apostasy.
His average show has a veritable horde of secondary characters, all, typically, venal and self-seeking: the seventy deadly sins.
The sort of people who are ruthless, self-seeking and workaholic also tend to be desperate and lonely.
How to keep the state from being taken over (as Trotsky said had happened) by an entrenched, self-seeking bureaucracy?
