He is too unripe to overthrow us, and too shallow a self-seeker to try. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
TOADY emphasizes the servility and snobbery of the self-seeker cultivated leaders of society and became their toady. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again] Reference
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"?. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks"] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
Christians; if by ill hap there should be a single self-seeker or hypocrite, a Catiline or a Cromwell, for instance, he would certainly get the better of his pious compatriots. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Contract] Reference
This is not the conduct of the charlatan, not of the self-seeker. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
He has now become a by-word as a hypocrite and a merciless self-seeker. From Wordnik.com. [Slain By The Doones] Reference
The sycophant and the self-seeker bow before quite other idols than of old. From Wordnik.com. [Historical and Political Essays] Reference
I will brand you false, a self-seeker, a pretender, a charlatan, a trickster, a rogue. From Wordnik.com. [Their Yesterdays] Reference
Good ground, even though he was wedded to external life; a self-seeker; a lover of the world?. From Wordnik.com. [All's for the Best] Reference
Most men recognized that he was nothing but a self-seeker, and there were few who trusted him. From Wordnik.com. [The Odds And Other Stories] Reference
Let me but leave the good name to my three daughters, and that is enough for me; I am not a self-seeker. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House]
Or are you a too-easy, too-facile man-pleaser and self-seeker, being all things to all men that you may make use of all men?. From Wordnik.com. [Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)] Reference
Buttafuoco, Choiseul's unworthy instrument in acquiring the island, and now, as then, an uninfluential and consequential self-seeker. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference
If you'll come back with me up the elevator I'll tell him he's a self-seeker and selfish, and with no thought above his own interests. From Wordnik.com. [Lion and the Unicorn] Reference
And the kind of happiness I thus win is one that I estimate far more highly than the happiness which contents the ordinary self-seeker. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I] Reference
The position taken by Dwight was not that of the self-seeker; he had no gift for turning his love for the art of music into financial results. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
A halo of false romance and glory, however, surrounds this crusade, mainly by reason of the associations connecting it with the self-seeker Richard. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)] Reference
He was of an innocent life, no busy-body, nor self-seeker: neither touchy nor critical: what fell from him was very inoffensive, if not very edifying. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers] Reference
They were directed by a lofty and disinterested enthusiasm, without which the most talented man is a mere self-seeker, useless or dangerous to society. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
He should have remembered the ancient bitter rancour; should have recognized, in the amity of later times, the amity of the self-seeker, and mistrusted it. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Cesare Borgia]
The self-seeker will walk into the very abyss protesting himself a practical man, and counting him unpractical who will not with him "jump the life to come.". From Wordnik.com. [The Elect Lady] Reference
The Duke of Argyll, soldier, statesman, orator, shrewd self-seeker, represented the Whigs of Scotland; the honest, proud, pompous Duke of Somerset those of England. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)] Reference
The precocious student is Ali, 17, Muslim American, fiery young dissident, troubled self-seeker, brother of Sameh, semi-obedient son of their old-school Muslim father. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Montcalm, whatever may have been his shortcomings in some respects, was no self-seeker, and was very properly disgusted with the mal-administration which everywhere prevailed. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1] Reference
It was all in gala dress -- newly-arranged flowers, festive lunch-table, the best foot foremost; and yet, whereas there was no hiding the self-seeker in the ingratiating Bennet. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
Par·a·sit·i·cal·ly /-ti-k&-lE/ adverb synonyms PARASITE, SYCOPHANT, TOADY, LEECH, SPONGE mean a usually obsequious flatterer or self-seeker. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again] Reference
You would say, "This man is an enthusiast -- he imagines scores of impossible things -- but, at least, he is not a self-seeker -- a fool possibly, but not a knave. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference
The great man cannot be a self-seeker. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches] Reference
(3) For with the incontinent man it is not as with the self-seeker and the covetous. From Wordnik.com. [The Memorabilia] Reference
"He was in no sense a self-seeker. From Wordnik.com. [Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective] Reference
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