self-serving

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more self-serving comparative most self-serving superlative selfserving alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English serving
English self-serving
From self- + serving.
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