self-regard
Americannoun
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concern for one's own interest
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proper esteem for oneself
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of self-regard
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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Instead, it’s happening in a climate-controlled studio in Los Angeles, where a Swedish football icon skilled in third person self-regard is tangling—or, perhaps, simply busting chops—with a polarizing American soccer loudmouth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
The pathological self-regard required to be a YouTube star turned out to be reasonable preparation for the supercharged bravado of being a boxer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
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.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025
He was blistering in his intelligence and blistering in his self-regard.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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