self-applauding
Example Sentences
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The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:— Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William
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
Mrs. Troyle paused again, with the self-applauding air of one who has detected an asp lurking in an apple-charlotte.
From The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki
The well-known line, "Sum pius Æneas, famâ super æthere notus," occurs too frequently to render it possible to take any interest in such a self-applauding character.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
"Ve've got summat, at last," said the Tinker, with a self-applauding glance at his friends.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
