amour-propre
Example Sentences
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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
Rousseau distinguished two forms of self-love, amour de soi and amour-propre.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2018
His lightly made up and prosthetised face really did resemble a vampire’s in daylight, and his sudden explosions of rage and amour-propre were an absolute joy.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2017
It was a matter of amour-propre, but—again—also of tactics.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2016
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 Wingfield, Lewis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
