applause
noun
hand clapping as a demonstration of approval, appreciation, acclamation, or the like.
self-applause
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a word derived from
applause.
Example Sentences
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In a shambles of sight gags, unfinished sentences and self-applause, Milton Berle last week returned to TV.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here was employment the bare thought of which, was righteous self-applause.
From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Any obtrusion of self, any appearance of self-love, self-interest, self-conceit, or self-applause, tends to expose a man to dislike, perhaps to contempt.
From Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew by Edward Berens
Contrasting this meeting with the last occasion when they had stood together beside this grave, had he not ground for self-applause?
From The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird
The majority lives in the perpetual exercise of self-applause; and there are certain truths which the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
