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Discover LudwigThe word "self-serving" is correct and commonly used in written English
You can use it to describe someone or something that benefits from a situation, often at the expense of others. For example: "The politician's promises were nothing more than self-serving rhetoric."
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self-serving
adjective
Showing interest only in oneself
synonyms
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(Self-serving too, of course).
He has a (self-serving) point.
Others dismiss these objections as self-serving.
THE unconvincing versus the self-serving.
It's too close to self-serving.
Clipse find Oprah's campaign self-serving.
Self-serving, to be sure.
Mylan Board: Icahn Offer 'Self-Serving'.
Keep him self-serving.
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She's self serving.
His "memos" are self serving and FAKE!
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