benevolent vs self-serving

benevolent

adj
  • Possessing or manifesting love for mankind. 

  • Having a disposition to do good. 

  • Altruistic, charitable, good, just and fair. 

self-serving

adj
  • Showing interest only in oneself (pursuing self-interest to the exclusion of other goals). 

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