scrupulous vs self-seeking

scrupulous

adj
  • Having scruples or compunctions. 

  • Wrongly feeling guilt or anxiety about one’s morality; suffering from scrupulosity. 

  • Precise; exact or strict. 

  • Exactly and carefully conducted. 

self-seeking

adj
  • Mindful of, or promoting, only one's own interests. 

  • That searches for a target automatically. 

noun
  • The selfish promotion of one's own interests. 

How often have the words scrupulous and self-seeking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )