self-server

He stirs disdain in opposition spectators and a particularly complex ambivalence among his own team's fans, who see him as the embodiment of Mourinho's determined, forceful style but also as a self-server who placed his own irritation with Nemanja Vidic in a Champions League final ahead of the club's raging urge to land the prize.

Didier Drogba feels the heat of change at Chelsea | Paul Hayward 2011

One a fanatical self-server in the new regime, the other a spoiled member of the old guard, not tried or tested.

Dearly Beloved 2010

A member of Jerry Lewis' Appropriations Committee Lewis is currently under Federal investigation himself, Taylor is a major self-server and has been caught up in scandal after scandal, far beyond his involvements with allegedly taking tainted money from DeLay and Abramoff.

Firedoglake » Blue America: Two Dems in NC — Larry Kissell and Heath Shuler 2006

I mean, you know, he's unabashed self-server in terms of legislation to deal with the fact that he's got oil holdings in Tennessee and this here and that there.

Oral History Interview with Hodding Carter, April 1, 1974. Interview A-0100. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

I would say he is: 3. A hubristic self-server, who delights in taking opportunities to articulate his encyclopaedic understanding of knowledge when patronising others, yet does not have the courage to adopt his professed preferred ethical position of 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you'.

The Guardian World News Tanya Gold 2011

Vas the Man: I do use the self-server checkout, but it's a royal pain.

Diary of an Average Australian Daniel 2010

First, the self-server thing couldn't find the bar code.

Greeley Tribune - Top Stories 2009

Purposely avoiding all attraction that may savour of extravagance, patiently subduing every tone and every hue to the aspect of those whom we meet daily in our thoroughfares, I have shown in Robert Beaufort the man of decorous phrase and bloodless action -- the systematic self-server -- in whom the world forgive the lack of all that is generous, warm, and noble, in order to respect the passive acquiescence in methodical conventions and hollow forms.

Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Purposely avoiding all attraction that may savour of extravagance, patiently subduing every tone and every hue to the aspect of those whom we meet daily in our thoroughfares, I have shown in Robert Beaufort the man of decorous phrase and bloodless action -- the systematic self-server -- in whom the world forgive the lack of all that is generous, warm, and noble, in order to respect the passive acquiescence in methodical conventions and hollow forms.

Night and Morning, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838