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Definition of self-interested in English: self-interestedadjective ˌsɛlfˈɪntrɛstɪdsɛlf ˈɪn(t)ərəstəd Motivated by one's personal interest or advantage, especially without regard for others. 自私自利的 many groups pursue self-interested aims 许多集团追求自利的目标。 Example sentencesExamples - Even at a time when Australia admitted a comparatively large number of refugees, its generosity was self-interested.
- They are young people and find the older and more self-interested comedians slightly tiresome.
- We say people are basically selfish and self-interested, so that's how the market should be constructed.
- To call one of these forms of motivation self-interested but the other not does not seem to add anything to our understanding of them.
- As owners of huge amounts of stock, it is their job to hold incompetent or self-interested management accountable.
- What emerges may be even worse than our brutal, self-interested bungling, but hope springs eternal.
- If a leader acts in an altruistic fashion for self-interested reasons, how does one evaluate such behavior?
- They carefully reflect a mix of motivations to these abuses, from the more excusable to the purely self-interested.
- They may be tribunes of the people but they are also deeply self-interested.
- It goes against the self-interested vein running deep in the hidden places of the personality.
- In some cases, the antagonism seemed petulant and self-interested, and sometimes it was fuelled by genuine moral outrage.
- For too long, the moral and self-interested case against arms exports has been trumped by the apparently invincible economic case.
- Nations must decide between playing self-interested politics or preparing to risk lives to enforce civilized norms.
- Years of observation and introspection have led many to the conclusion that people are self-interested creatures.
- This is a recipe for a resentful, suspicious, self-interested, and racially hostile polity.
- The stakeholders are frighteningly numerous, diverse, intensely self-interested, and powerful.
- If the government thinks it can take us back to an era of managed news by self-interested politicians, then it is even more delusional than we thought.
- First, it's highly likely that, except in the opinion of self-interested journalists, it's not outrageous at all.
- Despite what some self-interested groups say, our present energy consumption levels are so high we have no practical alternative to fossil fuels.
- Our economic order claims to spread democracy by imposing its own self-interested rules on poorer nations.
Synonyms self-seeking, self-serving, self-obsessed, self-absorbed, self-regarding, wrapped up in oneself, egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, egomaniacal, inward-looking, introverted, selfish inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking, uncaring informal looking after number one
Definition of self-interested in US English: self-interestedadjectivesɛlf ˈɪn(t)ərəstəd Motivated by one's personal interest or advantage, especially without regard for others. 自私自利的 many groups pursue self-interested aims 许多集团追求自利的目标。 Example sentencesExamples - This is a recipe for a resentful, suspicious, self-interested, and racially hostile polity.
- It goes against the self-interested vein running deep in the hidden places of the personality.
- Years of observation and introspection have led many to the conclusion that people are self-interested creatures.
- First, it's highly likely that, except in the opinion of self-interested journalists, it's not outrageous at all.
- For too long, the moral and self-interested case against arms exports has been trumped by the apparently invincible economic case.
- Despite what some self-interested groups say, our present energy consumption levels are so high we have no practical alternative to fossil fuels.
- In some cases, the antagonism seemed petulant and self-interested, and sometimes it was fuelled by genuine moral outrage.
- They may be tribunes of the people but they are also deeply self-interested.
- Even at a time when Australia admitted a comparatively large number of refugees, its generosity was self-interested.
- Nations must decide between playing self-interested politics or preparing to risk lives to enforce civilized norms.
- They carefully reflect a mix of motivations to these abuses, from the more excusable to the purely self-interested.
- If a leader acts in an altruistic fashion for self-interested reasons, how does one evaluate such behavior?
- As owners of huge amounts of stock, it is their job to hold incompetent or self-interested management accountable.
- What emerges may be even worse than our brutal, self-interested bungling, but hope springs eternal.
- To call one of these forms of motivation self-interested but the other not does not seem to add anything to our understanding of them.
- If the government thinks it can take us back to an era of managed news by self-interested politicians, then it is even more delusional than we thought.
- We say people are basically selfish and self-interested, so that's how the market should be constructed.
- They are young people and find the older and more self-interested comedians slightly tiresome.
- Our economic order claims to spread democracy by imposing its own self-interested rules on poorer nations.
- The stakeholders are frighteningly numerous, diverse, intensely self-interested, and powerful.
Synonyms self-seeking, self-serving, self-obsessed, self-absorbed, self-regarding, wrapped up in oneself, egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, egomaniacal, inward-looking, introverted, selfish
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