self-applauding
Example Sentences
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"That's because they have nothing to lose," said mine host, with the chuckle of a self-applauding wit.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir
The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:— Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William
Mrs. Troyle paused again, with the self-applauding air of one who has detected an asp lurking in an apple-charlotte.
From The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki
But bade the self-applauding crow, fill'd big With hopes of favor for his faithful tale, With snowy-plumag'd birds no more to join.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
The well-known line, "Sum pius Æneas, famâ super æthere notus," occurs too frequently to render it possible to take any interest in such a self-applauding character.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
