self-applause
- 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
Every young hopeful in our day makes a target of his grandfather’s gravestone, and fires away, with great self-applause.
From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
The majority lives in the perpetual practice of self-applause, and there are certain truths which the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience.
From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Reeves, Henry
As to Miriam, she went back to Cowfold without any self-accusation or self-applause.
From Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers by Rutherford, Mark
The company, at large, was divided into groups, to the matron part of which Miss Arbe was dictatorially haranguing, with very apparent self-applause.
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
