self-approval
Example Sentences
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Jewish self-approval comes in at +79 points, Latter-day Saints at +78, atheists at +70 and Catholics at +62.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
What Macron lacked in seasoning he has made up for with abundant self-approval.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022
Schwimmer plays an American NSA agent sent to liaise with his U.K. counterparts, arriving in a cloud of heedless Yankee self-approval.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2020
His break with Rousseau was caused in part by his inability to accept Rousseau’s sober self-approval for having turned his back on the fashionable world.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
Aarfy was tapping the bowl of his pipe against his palm leisurely as he paced back and forth in corpulent self-approval, obviously delighted by the stir he was causing.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
