Example Sentences

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"Yeah," she says, in a diva‑ish parody of self-approbation.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2014

This smug self-approbation was, I think, at the heart of my reconsideration of Jane Austen.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2013

They are both insufferable egotists, and the author derives much laughter from their self-approbation.

From Time Magazine Archive

He preens before the mirror of his self-approbation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:

From "Emma" by Jane Austen