Usage examples (31)

• He is too unripe to overthrow us, and too shallow a self-seeker to try.
• TOADY emphasizes the servility and snobbery of the self-seeker cultivated leaders of society and became their toady.
• Does't that figure of speech signify a sycophant, defined by my dictionary as "a servile self-seeker who curries favor by flattering influential people"?
• His failure at the moment of her great self-sacrifice had shown him to her as he really was -- no bold and gallant spirit, but a cringing, spiritless self-seeker.