pride
Example Sentences
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“To me,” Chesney said in a video for the Harbaugh Coaching Academy, “it’s that ability to celebrate little successes and then you watch someone just kind of sit up a little taller, swell up a little bit more with pride and then they want to build that confidence, they want to repeat that success.”
From Los Angeles Times
The PM said the Budget "was a moment of personal pride", highlighting how the decision to scrap the two-child benefit cap would lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty.
From BBC
Still, there is the unfinished business of getting over the Darién debacle and regaining Scotland’s financial pride.
When someone photographs a drink she made, it’s pride, not pandering.
From Salon
As for Keith, he says, “It’s a point of pride that I had a hand in it.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
