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EXPEDIENCY |
Self-interest |
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OPPORTUNISM |
Self-interest |
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BY-INTEREST |
Self-interest; private advantage. |
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SELF-INTEREST |
Private interest; the interest or advantage of one's
self. |
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SELF-SACRIFICING |
Yielding up one's own interest, ffeelings, etc;
sacrificing one's self. |
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INDIVIDUALISM |
An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal
interest; self-interest; selfishness. |
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SELF-SACRIFICE |
The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's
interest, for others; self-devotion. |
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SELF |
Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest;
selfishness; as, self is his whole aim. |
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MEDDLE |
To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- / a
good sense. |
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EGOISM |
Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding
one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to
altruism. |
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EXPEDIENT |
...r
promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances;
conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; --
someti... |
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ATTACH |
To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or
self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; --
with to; as, attached to... |
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CYNIC |
...either consciously or unconsciously, wholly by
self-interest or self-indulgence, and that appearances to the contrary
are superficial and untrus... |
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PRIVATE |
Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person,
company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others;
personal; one's own; ... |
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SELFISHNESS |
The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive
regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or
self-preference which lea... |
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CYNICAL |
... life by
moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes
which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or
self-ind... |