self-applauding
Example Sentences
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The spectators who feel no abhorrence at a public execution, but rather a self-applauding superiority, and a sense of gratified indignation, are surely excited to the most inauspicious emotions.
From A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
But bade the self-applauding crow, fill'd big With hopes of favor for his faithful tale, With snowy-plumag'd birds no more to join.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
"That's because they have nothing to lose," said mine host, with the chuckle of a self-applauding wit.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir
The vindictive P. T. was both so fortunate and so hearty in his commendations that he proved the mere echo of Pope in his self-applauding moods.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander
What Wordsworth admirably called "the self-applauding sincerity of a heated mind" leaves them no loophole for doubt, and no understanding of the doubter.
From Americans and Others by Repplier, Agnes
