approve
verb (used with object)
to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably.
self-approving
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a word derived from
approve.
Example Sentences
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They should bring “no other weapon but that of a self-approving conscience”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2018
In the appeal filed Monday, Brady’s lawyers said that Commissioner Roger Goodell’s “biased, agenda-driven and self-approving appeal ruling must be vacated.”
From New York Times ● May 24, 2016
In the appeal filed on Monday, Brady’s lawyers said that Commissioner Roger Goodell’s “biased, agenda-driven, and self-approving ‘appeal’ ruling must be vacated.”
From Washington Times ● May 24, 2016
Broadly speaking, Simon is on the side of bringing the marginalized in from the margins; for good neighbors against bad ones and for principled or at least efficient public servants over rabble-rousing, self-approving loudmouths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2015
There is more life in one "self-approving hour,"-one act of benevolence,—one work of self-discipline,—than in threescore years and ten of mere sensual existence.
From The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
