self-applauding
Example Sentences
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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
Religious truth is not reached by "quick turns of self-applauding intellect," nor by demonstrations.
From The Jesus of History by Glover, T. R.
What Wordsworth admirably called "the self-applauding sincerity of a heated mind" leaves them no loophole for doubt, and no understanding of the doubter.
From Americans and Others by Repplier, Agnes
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 self-applauding bird, the peacock see:— Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob
