self-delight
- a word derived from delight.
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
What’s missing are musical numbers that showcase his showmanship and eternal capacity for self-delight.
From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2019
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
