self-regard
Example Sentences
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On Wednesday, a group of pooh-bahs from college sports—an industry with boundless self-regard but limited ability to agree on anything—met with our elected pooh-bahs in Washington, D.C., who proudly do that for a living.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
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
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 entire movie has a disappointing air of smug self-regard about it, with an expectation the audience will adore everything about the characters as much as they do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
I was no better than she was, nor worse for that matter We were both guilty of the sin of self-regard, the pride and the exclusiveness by which we cut some people off from ourselves.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
