admiring
adjective
displaying or feeling admiration.
self-admiring
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a word derived from
admiring.
Example Sentences
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In his final year he joined the Cambridge Apostles, a club that the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper described as “an egregious secret society of self-perpetuating self-admiring narcissi.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
O’Neill wasn’t wrong, though, in the self-admiring assessment he made in a 1940 letter to the critic George Jean Nathan, to whom he had sent an early draft.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
He tears through the veil of slick, self-admiring style that has both unlocked and at times obscured his very real merits as an artist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
Like many self-appointed saviors, Haftar spoke with a certain self-admiring fatalism.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
And the next, the one who played the Liebestraum, a tall young lady with the self-admiring graces and manners of an opera singer on the concert platform.
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
