self-serving

Preposition: for

• bent: Complication is self-serving for an industry bent on technical advance, but of no help to the confused purchaser.

Modifies a noun

• bias: To illustrate the self-serving bias with regard to success, I will draw on my own experiences.
• argument: This is a self-serving argument to fog the real issues involved.
• nature: Even so, the self-serving natures of most of Mandy's reviews say a great deal about the nature of the book itself.
• statement: The Executive Yuan must deal with this issue cautiously and seriously, thus we are not simply making self-serving statements.
• reason: I bypassed appealing to conscience in favor of pointing out various self-serving reasons to take organics seriously.
• interest: Our aim is to persuade European governments to put people's health before the self-serving interests of the aviation industry.

Modifying Another Word

• possibly: Possibly self-serving sterling we found six do away with.
• not: The prophets of the Old Testament were not self-serving.
• entirely: You disgust me because your aims are entirely self-serving and selfish.
• so: Us so if cost of your so self-serving quot millions nationally on.
• rather: Now, you might say this is rather self-serving, even cynical.
• largely: A visit would not have prospered, not least because of the widespread conviction in Washington that Wilson's peace initiative was largely self-serving.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Lewis is quick to argue that enacted by Antonio, this final attribute becomes entirely self-serving.
• seem: Using a bunch of superlatives only makes you seem self-serving.