How to Use self-serving in a Sentence

self-serving

adjective

• His whole agenda was self-serving.
  — Thr Staff, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
• Yet, some are sticking with this self-serving loser.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
• For your own self-serving purposes.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2025
• Welcome to Amerizuela, where the leader is self-serving and out for his own gains.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
• And then there’s the self-serving Ghoul, who dispatches with anyone who gets in his way.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
• This, in fact, is how Palantir prices its offerings (so there’s the self-serving bit).
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 7 July 2026
• The sentence is remarkably self-serving, even for Meta.
  — Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2026
• Lee ignores them, and his self-serving need to fix things and soothe his own sense of injustice leads to sloppiness.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
• The vigilantes who hanged her were self-serving cattlemen.
  — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
• Yet Aster casts their motives as unprincipled and self-serving.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
• But this remains a polling no-brainer for lawmakers, who are tired of being seen as self-serving greed monsters.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 9 Mar. 2026
• Mike wants a partnership with Hobbs that is clearly self-serving, to protect his brother.
  — Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
• And ideally, the goals aren’t self-serving—but considerate of the people around them.
  — Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
• The first proposition is plausible; the second is arguably self-serving.
  — Harry Booth, Time, 17 July 2026
• Evolutionarily speaking, people might not even be built to set self-serving goals.
  — Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
• So, what happens when self-serving narratives collide with a deep (and recent) history?
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
• And yet his insistence that his campaign wasn’t really about him, however self-serving, contains more than a seed of truth.
  — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
• While a dog can be bribed with a squeaky toy and a pig would surely look at the camera when enticed with a sausage on a stick, cats are known for their admirably self-serving demeanors.
  — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
• Two at-odds facts can both be true, and all of us are susceptible to arrogance and self-serving rationalization.
  — Carol Quillen, Time, 21 Feb. 2026
• More often than not, Odysseus’s deceit is manipulative and self-serving.
  — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
• And much of what Karp said was either self-serving, inaccurate, or contradictory—or all three.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 7 July 2026
• On her deathbed, Mary exhorts her son to take advantage of this situation in grotesquely self-serving terms at odds with the movie’s overall soak-the-rich ethos.
  — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
• Elmosnino is an amusing villain, making his most self-serving machinations sound reasonable.
  — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
• Trump’s frustration with Canada has set the tone, and self-serving special interests have magnified his clarion call.
  — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
• Fair enough, but Roxie’s self-serving warning turns out to be prescient when Wes comes home to find Estelle ready to break up with him, bags packed and everything.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
• Readers get to see Boone’s past and present, his brittle family relationships, and all of his self-serving internal narratives.
  — Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
• Anybody so certain of anything — except maybe that the markets will be open for trading tomorrow — is acting out of their own self-serving interests to drive fear and gain more attention.
  — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
• That makes his criticisms of the industry’s top dogs easy to dismiss as self-serving—which is unfortunate, because a few of his ideas deserve a more credible champion.
  — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2026
• This is incredibly misleading, dishonest and self-serving.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
• But the film is also a surprisingly thoughtful examination of faith and the ease with which genuine, if maybe misguided, belief can be manipulated and used as a self-serving tool.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 9 Dec. 2025