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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"This album is going to get terrible reviews," Self Esteem predicted when I caught up with her last Christmas.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2025
But Self Esteem, aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor, is too clever to mess it up.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2025
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
As well as players, its guests included musicians like Aitch, Self Esteem and Loyle Carner, and personalities including comedian Maisie Adam, DJ Reece Parkinson and former Love Islander Jordan Hames.
From BBC • Oct. 20, 2023
Esteem, es-tēm′, v.t. to set a high estimate or value on: to regard with respect or friendship: to consider or think.—n. high estimation or value: favourable regard.—p.adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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