amour propre

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

Such an explanation would be pleasing to our amour propre.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

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

It was a matter of amour-propre, but—again—also of tactics.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2016

The great thing would be to make no change, to keep Ministers and everything as it is, and to gain time; in this way no one is hurt and no amour-propre blessé.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount