amour propre

Example Sentences

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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

My children, I travelled many and many a thousand miles with master after that both by sea and by land, but never again did he insult my amour propre by putting me in a creel.

From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon