applaud
verb (used without object)
to clap the hands as an expression of approval, appreciation, acclamation, etc..
self-applauding
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a word derived from
applaud.
Example Sentences
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But bade the self-applauding crow, fill'd big With hopes of favor for his faithful tale, With snowy-plumag'd birds no more to join.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:— Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
The spectators who feel no abhorrence at a public execution, but rather a self-applauding superiority, and a sense of gratified indignation, are surely excited to the most inauspicious emotions.
From A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:— Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
The vindictive P. T. was both so fortunate and so hearty in his commendations that he proved the mere echo of Pope in his self-applauding moods.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
