self-approval
Example Sentences
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What Macron lacked in seasoning he has made up for with abundant self-approval.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022
Schwimmer plays an American NSA agent sent to liaise with his U.K. counterparts, arriving in a cloud of heedless Yankee self-approval.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2020
His break with Rousseau was caused in part by his inability to accept Rousseau’s sober self-approval for having turned his back on the fashionable world.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019
By then I had found my own dignity and my own self-approval.
From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2017
Aarfy was tapping the bowl of his pipe against his palm leisurely as he paced back and forth in corpulent self-approval, obviously delighted by the stir he was causing.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
