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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By now, the esteemed justice was frenzied, shouting in wonder to the others in the room.
From Literature
“But I think she thinks she’s a beloved teacher and an esteemed professor.”
From Los Angeles Times
And he’s Southern California born and bred, the product of esteemed diamond factory Harvard-Westlake High.
From Los Angeles Times
Our esteemed colleague, Josh Rottenberg, was there and wrote about it.
From Los Angeles Times
There are storylines wherever you look with O'Neill, such is his history with Celtic and the esteem in which he is held by fellow managers and both former and current players.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
