Thesaurus / self-love

self-love

How to use self-love in a sentence

A ruler who neglects all men of letters alike does not wound the self love of any man of letters.

A passion of wounded vanity, of disappointed self-love swept through her.

To obtain this precious harvest, garnered by self-love, a woman must be looked at.

His chagrin, his wounded self-love, his mortification at the unexpected turn of affairs unnerved him.

Reviewing those days, Mrs. Prency could say that utter selfishness and self-love had been her deepest sins.

ALL HE KNEWJOHN HABBERTON

Her self-love was gratified, and her diligence in diving deeper into his favorite works daily increased.

Thus, in civilisation, all the passions that spring from humiliated self-love and baffled aspiration again preyed upon his breast.

At length he allowed it to fall, exclaiming, with pardonable self-love, "Surely this must succeed!"

He commenced by flattering the self-love of his auditors; a never-failing method of commanding attention.

But self-love is a cup without any bottom, and you might pour the Great Lakes all through it, and never fill it up.

A MORTAL ANTIPATHYOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985