Definitions for self-serving

self-serving self-serv·ing

Spelling: [self-sur-ving]
IPA: /ˈsɛlfˈsɜr vɪŋ/

Self-Serving is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 684 anagrams from letters in self-serving (-eefgilnrssv).

Definitions for self-serving

adjective

  1. preoccupied with one's own interests, often disregarding the truth or the interests, well-being, etc., of others.
  2. serving to further one's own selfish interests.

Origin of self-serving

First recorded in 1900-05

Examples for self-serving

The result is not only vindication, but also the self-serving sense that only you can save the republic.

This I felt was certainly, in his opinion, a self-serving statement.

Through regulation, politics inserts itself as a self-serving factor in market transactions.

It was apparent that he had made a self-serving statement to Agent Quigley.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

“Catty, petty, and self-serving,” is how one of those way-right-of-center folk described Geithner to me.

Lovell does an excellent job deconstructing this self-serving myth.

Plenty of listeners will point to Paula as proof that Robin Thicke is a narcissistic, self-serving jerk.

There is, inevitably, a lot of self-serving humbug and a lot of tedious pap.

They often publish other people's self-serving communiqués without altering a word.

Word Value for self-serving
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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