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New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
Liam Fox

Meaning of "self-serving" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-SERVING

self-serving play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-SERVING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Serving is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SELF-SERVING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Selfishness

Selfishness is placing concern with oneself or one's own interests above the well-being of others. Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness; and has also been contrasted with self-centredness.

Definition of self-serving in the English dictionary

The definition of self-serving in the dictionary is habitually seeking one's own advantage, esp at the expense of others.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-SERVING

self-sacrifice
self-sacrificing
self-sacrificingly
self-satisfaction
self-satisfied
self-sealing
self-seeded
self-seeker
self-seeking
self-service
self-sown
self-standing
self-starter
self-steering
self-study
self-styled
self-sufficiency
self-sufficient
self-sufficiently
self-sufficing

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-SERVING

carving
deserving
driving
giving
Irving
leaving
living
loving
moving
nerving
rock carving
serving
starving
timeserving
undeserving
unnerving
unobserving
unswerving
wood carving
woodcarving

Synonyms and antonyms of self-serving in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «self-serving» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-SERVING

Find out the translation of self-serving to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-serving from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-serving» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

利己
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

egoísta
570 millions of speakers

English

self-serving
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वयं सेवा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لخدمة مصالح ذاتية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

корыстный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

auto-serviço
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ধান্দাবাজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

égocentrique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Layan diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

eigennützige
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

利己的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이기적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyawiji dhéwé
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự phục vụ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய பரிமாறும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वयंसेवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendine hizmet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

self-serving
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

samolubna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

корисливий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

auto- servire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτο - εξυπηρετούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

selfdienende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

egennyttiga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

egoistiske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-serving

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-SERVING»

The term «self-serving» is quite widely used and occupies the 50.526 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-SERVING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «self-serving» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «self-serving» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-serving

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10 QUOTES WITH «SELF-SERVING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word self-serving.
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Diane Abbott
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
2
Aldrich Ames
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
3
Bryan Batt
I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.
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Ginny Brown-Waite
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
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Harold Ford, Jr.
I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.
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Liam Fox
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
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Mark Hatfield
As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
8
Robin Marantz Henig
Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.
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Donella Meadows
Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
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Steven Moffat
I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-SERVING»

Discover the use of self-serving in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-serving and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Year of Living Sinfully: A Self-Serving Guide to Doing ...
But now you're tired of being good all the time. It's time to walk a darker path. So dropkick your inhibitions and tap into your inner sinner. This is your passport to shoving common civility into the mud and enjoying yourself.
Eric Grzymkowski, 2011
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My Self Serving Book of Facebook Statuses and Notes
The second reason is I'm not taking credit for things they say and I don't know who would want to be mentioned and who wouldn't. So please enjoy this book.....or don't, I don't care.
Vinnie Rinaudo, 2012
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Money: A Self-serving Programme
calibre (0.8.1) [http://calibre-ebook.com]. investment in less than fifteen months and this will not always be possible, in fact, in the early years probably impossible. These thoughts bring up a number of 'what ifs', but for the time being, these are ...
calibre (0.8.1) [http://calibre-ebook.com], 2013
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Money: A Self-serving Programme: Liquidity, Savings, and ...
Liquidity, Savings, and Investment Roger Wilson. investment in less than fifteen months and this will not always be possible, in fact, in the early years probably impossible. These thoughts bring up a number of 'what ifs', but for the time being,  ...
Roger Wilson, 2013
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Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-worship
THE SELF-SERVING BIAS Although many people seem to think that their problem or the problem of others is their lack of self-esteem, or a lack of a sufficiently positive attitude toward themselves, there is much psychological evidence to the ...
Paul C. Vitz, 1994
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The Conceptual Self in Context: Culture Experience Self ...
3. Depression. and. the. cultural. context. of. the. self-serving. bias. LINDAJ. KOENIG Contrary to naive assumptions, we now know that human thinking is subject to many systematic errors (Nisbett & Ross, 1980; Tversky & Kahneman, 1974).
Ulric Neisser, David A. Jopling, 1997
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The Noetic Effects of Sin: A Historical and Contemporary ...
Myers cites research which has found a self-serving bias at work "among Dutch high school university students, Belgian basketball players, Indian Hindus, Japanese drivers, Australian students and workers, Chinese students, and French ...
Stephen K. Moroney, 2000
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Social Psychology
Self-serving. biases. EXAMPLE After Emilia's softball team loses a game, most of her teammates complain about poor officiating; however, after a win, the team views the officials as having done a good job.
Catherine A. Sanderson, 2009
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Sin, Pride & Self-Acceptance: The Problem of Identity in ...
28 We are easily corrupted by a self-serving bias. This blinds us to an accurate picture of ourselves as well as the world. For Myers, this tendency toward selfishness is aptly demonstrated by evolutionary psychologists such as David Barash ...
Terry D. Cooper, 2003
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Knowing People: The Personal Use of Social Psychology
Whether the attribution is to a stable or unstable personal characteristic, purely self-serving people would attribute their success to themselves and their failure to external causes, some aspect of their situation, rather than to themselves.
Michael J. Lovaglia, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-SERVING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-serving is used in the context of the following news items.
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Taylor Swift accused of being 'self-serving' by Grizzly Bear's Edward …
Grizzly Bear frontman Edward Droste publicly slammed pop diva Taylor Swift in a series of disparaging tweets on Sunday. Earlier this year, the 36-year-old ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Netanyahu's self-serving scare tactics: Why his Iran fear-mongering …
Netanyahu's self-serving scare tactics: Why his Iran fear-mongering is riddled with contradictions. Israel's leader is doing his best to scare Americans into nixing ... «Salon, Jul 15»
3
Nick Saban's NFL Draft argument is self-serving and doesn't make …
Nick Saban used part of his Wednesday appearance at SEC Media Days to complain about the NFL's draft grade system -- whereby non-seniors can apply for ... «SB Nation, Jul 15»
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Parramatta hits out at 'self-serving' individuals attacking NRL club …
Parramatta chairman Steve Sharp says the club has been the victim of unwarranted and vicious attacks and that "self-serving" individuals are seeking to ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
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Capitalism should stop being so self-serving
A few years ago, while still working outside London, I met a man who had recently been out of work for 18 months. He had been laid off in a downturn, but was ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Banks' liquidity lobbying is self-serving
Hopefully, the watchdogs will realise that this is entirely self-serving on the part of the banks. Start with the kernel of truth. Marketmaking has been cut back, and ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
7
Hillary Clinton's call for easier voting is self-serving, but so what?
Clinton's speech was self-serving in another, subtler way. By accusing Republicans of “systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of American citizens ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»
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President's letter was self-serving: Malthouse
Sacked Carlton coach Mick Malthouse has slammed the "negative" and "self-serving" letter to the club's members sent by Blues president Mark LoGiudice on ... «The Age, May 15»
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Jordanian prince: FIFA president has 'cost us our dignity'
The conspicuous waste, the self-serving policies and controversial leadership style of FIFA today have disempowered our national associations, hurt our sport ... «Business Insider, May 15»
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No more self-serving ads
The Stephen Harper government is certainly not the first to use taxpayer money to pay for self-serving advertising -- the Liberals were guilty of it, too -- but has ... «Toronto Sun, May 15»

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