self-respect

Example Sentences

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She said Atkins' behaviour "totally eroded my self-respect and my self-esteem".

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

The Continent “produced the genius of Mozart and Beethoven,” and it isn’t narrow or xenophobic to feel pride in this; it is a just self-respect without which you won’t be able to continue in history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

And I don’t think that they understood self-respect because I don’t think they experienced it before.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

How do I keep my self-respect and continue to communicate with him?

From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 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