self-regard

[self-ri-gahrd, self-]

noun

1. consideration for oneself or one's own interests.

2. self-respect.

self-regard

noun

1. concern for one's own interest

2. proper esteem for oneself

Other Word Forms

• self-regarding adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-regard¹

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

Greene is “a powerful free agent with considerable self-regard and a big chip on her shoulder,” Karni wrote, adding she “appears to feel no obligation to anyone in Washington.”

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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.

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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.

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Here, food is rarely appetizing, but it is always expressive, a kind of edible theater for the gang’s obsessions, failures and pathological self-regard.

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Writer and director Jesse Armstrong never indulges the urge to humanize his narcissistic main characters by giving them secret soft sides or limits on their self-regard.

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