self-admiring
Example Sentences
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Hannah Waddingham, from “Ted Lasso,” plays Tyrannis’ mother, the noncanonical, self-admiring goddess Deliria, who has suffered a social reverse among the Olympians and has moved in with the family.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2023
O’Neill wasn’t wrong, though, in the self-admiring assessment he made in a 1940 letter to the critic George Jean Nathan, to whom he had sent an early draft.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018
Like many self-appointed saviors, Haftar spoke with a certain self-admiring fatalism.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
Her work with Minna Lyons at Liverpool Hope University revealed that people who habitually stayed up late were, on average, more self-admiring, manipulative and psychopathic.
From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2014
We heed not that the selfish condemn, that the self-admiring wise censure, or the parricidal accuse us.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher
