amour-propre

The younger man emerges from this labyrinth of court proceedings and outraged amour-propre in the worst possible light.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

It’s hard to see how, other than in their amour-propre, since Chief Justice Hughes ruled nearly nine decades ago that Congress had no right to disregard the fiscal obligations it enacted.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023

Perhaps this is what, among other things, gives rise to what is often derided as virtue-signalling, not to mention the ferocious rows, overreactions, wounded amour-propre and grandstanding that often characterise social media communities.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2019

Rousseau distinguished two forms of self-love, amour de soi and amour-propre.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2018

The chancellor, with an eye to business, soothed his amour-propre, and roundly told the Viceroy in private that he must constrain himself to be civil to the peers.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

Stripping away the amour propre of a nuclear-armed potentate is a dangerous business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

But Edna soon became a case study in exorbitant amour propre, lampooning suburban pretensions, political correctness and the cult of celebrity, and acquiring a damehood along the way.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

But Britain, its amour propre stung at losing such a treasure, halted its export and raised money to keep it in the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

Fiennes brings a wonderful maturity and complexity to the role: a jaggedness, a simmering amour propre, a neurotic obsessiveness, an importunate yearning.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2021

The progress of democracy has intensified this nationalistic strife and made it a matter of amour propre.

From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl