Example Sentences

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Jewish self-approval comes in at +79 points, Latter-day Saints at +78, atheists at +70 and Catholics at +62.

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2023

What Macron lacked in seasoning he has made up for with abundant self-approval.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022

Schwimmer plays an American NSA agent sent to liaise with his U.K. counterparts, arriving in a cloud of heedless Yankee self-approval.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2020

His break with Rousseau was caused in part by his inability to accept Rousseau’s sober self-approval for having turned his back on the fashionable world.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

Aarfy was tapping the bowl of his pipe against his palm leisurely as he paced back and forth in corpulent self-approval, obviously delighted by the stir he was causing.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller