Example Sentences

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The flailing limbs, the snobby rictus of disgust and self-delight.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019

The intensity of self-delight in the room was almost unbearable.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

American podcasts, like American meditation apps and American public radio, aren’t always able to resist a tone of knowing whimsy, or self-delight.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2019

And what’s he doing saying the word with this much insinuating self-delight, this much put-on jive?

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2017

Literary history does not record a more singular example of that self-delight which an author has felt on a revision of his works.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac