self-respect
Example Sentences
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Both women had “a sense of their own inner worth, and that self-respect helped sustain them through difficulties that I never had to experience. Thus was America built.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
She said Atkins' behaviour "totally eroded my self-respect and my self-esteem".
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
How do I keep my self-respect and continue to communicate with him?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
But she’s earning bank by sending a message of self-respect to her audience.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2025
There’d be no way for me to maintain even a semblance of self-respect around him after he’d read my many pages-long descriptions of how it felt to be with him—to even be near him.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
