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esteem
verb as in regard highly; value
Example Sentences
It’s one of my all-time favorite songs, and he’s written several that I just hold in such high esteem.
The esteemed chef was a finalist at this year’s James Beard Award in the “Best Chef: Great Lakes” category.
“You don’t think the guy can go up anymore in your esteem, another rung on the ladder of your esteem,” Harbaugh said, “and then he finds another one. It’s incredible.”
The statement added: "She has built her barrier high, she doesn't trust people, has no self esteem and blames herself."
The boy, described by his attorneys as an athletic teenager, had enrolled at the high school this school year and was excited about the prospect of playing on an esteemed high school football team.
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When To Use
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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