Definition of "self-regarding" [self-regarding]

• Considering foremost yourself and your own interests (adjective)

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• "It's what philosophers might call a "self-regarding action", yes?"
• "He saw her looking at him and smiled with a look of recognition that was proud, almost self-regarding."
• "In keeping with its maddening, self-regarding role as the American Pravda, a hand-wringing New York Times "analysis" worries that "the images could incite anti-American sentiment at a particularly delicate moment in the decade-old Afghan war.""