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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Her colleagues’ execution of Sosa, she bemoaned, “marks yet another low point in this court’s esteem for its precedents.”
From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026
"Abed loved journalism and held it in high esteem because it documents the truth," his father Samir Shaath told AFP, using his dead son's nickname.
From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026
"The outpouring of grief and loss is a reflection of the esteem in which he's held."
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026
Born in El Paso, Gloria grew up in L.A.’s Eastside in a family where John F. Kennedy was held in such esteem that one of her nieces was named Jacqueline.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
And, of course, he was jealous of her; her position in Nancy’s esteem, though of another order, had been at least equal to his.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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