self-approbation
Example Sentences
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"Yeah," she says, in a diva‑ish parody of self-approbation.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2014
This smug self-approbation was, I think, at the heart of my reconsideration of Jane Austen.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2013
They are both insufferable egotists, and the author derives much laughter from their self-approbation.
From Time Magazine Archive
He preens before the mirror of his self-approbation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
