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Self-serving

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Showing interest only in oneself (pursuing self-interest to the exclusion of other goals).

    ""Most of the time when people consider the question of what rules society should have for using software, the people considering it are from software companies, and they consider the question from a self-serving perspective," says Stallman, opening his speech."

Adjective
  1. 1
    concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others wordnet

Etymology

From self- + serving.

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