esteem
Usage
What are other ways to say esteem?
To esteem is to feel respect combined with a warm, kindly feeling. To appreciate is to exercise wise judgment, delicate perception, and keen insight in realizing the worth of something. To value is to attach importance to a thing because of its worth (material or otherwise). To prize is to value highly and cherish.
Example Sentences
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Speaking on the red carpet, pop star Self Esteem declared she was not going to win the only category in which she was nominated: Artist of the year.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
Esteem for “The Babadook” has only grown — not in spite of its “crazy” name but perhaps because of it.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024
Music stars Self Esteem and Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears will join the new cast of the hit West End London musical, Cabaret.
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2023
And where else would you get pop powerhouse Self Esteem performing a stripped-back set with Royal Northern Sinfonia?
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2023
Since that Nobleman's Decease, which was in April 1732, his Widow has always liv'd at Dresden; where she enjoys the Esteem of their Majesties, and the Veneration of the Courtiers.
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