self-regard
Example Sentences
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It was also a rebuke to the idea of grandiosity, in which inflated self-regard amounts to a distorted relationship with reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
He was resented for puncturing euphemisms of communal self-regard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
Hawke doesn’t overload their delicate dances or any of his other scene partnerships with an insistence on pulling the spotlight, true to his character’s unspoken self-regard as a guide who happens to investigate his curiosities.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
The character has to project entitlement, a whiff of corrosive self-regard.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
