self-praise
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The closest he came to any sort of self-praise was, “This time around, it was my turn to be able to perform.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025
Looking fresh, feeling fit and with a European tie looming against Roma, Shine permits herself some rare self-praise.
From BBC • Aug. 10, 2022
Our very own Louis XV is, of course, something else again: a deluge of tweets, insults, self-praise, lies and false claims, and strange acts of almost every imaginable sort.
From Salon • Dec. 1, 2019
And that very forward self-praise, it’s also true.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2017
His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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