self-regard
noun
self-re·gard
ˌself-ri-ˈgärd 
: regard for or consideration of oneself or one's own interests
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Examples of self-regard in a Sentence
her self-regard meant that she assumed everyone wanted to hear about every tiny detail of her life
people with enough self-regard to keep their modest home in spotless condition
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Pooter is ordinary and recognisable with a healthy self-regard bordering on delusional.
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The Week Uk, theweek, 28 June 2024
Being from Brooklyn fits her well; smooth self-regard and tight-lipped maturity — qualities popularized by the Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and even Pop Smoke — are her calling cards.
—Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
What might seem like virtue can also read as oblivious self-regard.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
What that amounts to is that Garvey is running a campaign of vanity and self-regard.
—Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
Still, punk, born specifically in reaction to rock’s decadent self-regard, presents a uniquely hard case.
—Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Mayor Eric Adams’s exuberant self-regard stops just short of biceps-kissing.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
This is moral vanity, Edelman admits: a professional charmer’s eagerness to flatter other people’s self-regard as a way of buttressing his own.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 June 2023
The self always related persons to its own identity: self-regard, self-destruction, self-love.
—Olga Tokarczuk, Harper's Magazine, 6 Jan. 2023
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The Week Uk, theweek, 28 June 2024
Being from Brooklyn fits her well; smooth self-regard and tight-lipped maturity — qualities popularized by the Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and even Pop Smoke — are her calling cards.
—Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
What might seem like virtue can also read as oblivious self-regard.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
What that amounts to is that Garvey is running a campaign of vanity and self-regard.
—Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
Still, punk, born specifically in reaction to rock’s decadent self-regard, presents a uniquely hard case.
—Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Mayor Eric Adams’s exuberant self-regard stops just short of biceps-kissing.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
This is moral vanity, Edelman admits: a professional charmer’s eagerness to flatter other people’s self-regard as a way of buttressing his own.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 June 2023
The self always related persons to its own identity: self-regard, self-destruction, self-love.
—Olga Tokarczuk, Harper's Magazine, 6 Jan. 2023
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“Self-regard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-regard. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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