self-interested
自利的,利己的,自利,私利
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- : regard for one's own interest or advantage, especially with disregard for others.
- : personal interest or advantage.
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We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.
But in the case of black women, another study found no lack of interest.
But if you have a hearing and you prove that someone is mature enough, well then that state interest evaporates.
In the parish churches, many of which are of great interest, the predominant styles are Decorated and Perpendicular.
And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.
A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.
Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.