pleasing
adjective
self-pleasing
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a word derived from
pleasing.
Example Sentences
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The reason why the widow’s claims were left long unsettled in the court was the self-pleasing indolence of the judge.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
Save her from her sins? from pride and anger and self-will and self-pleasing? why, they were inborn; they were in her very blood; they came like the breath of her breathing.
From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner
Such was the life thou livedst; self-abjuring, Thine own pains never easing, Our burdens bearing, our just doom enduring; A life without self-pleasing.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge
Thus Tolstoi's strictly logical structure of thought and Bakunin's confused talk, Kropotkin's discussions full of glowing philanthropy and Stirner's self-pleasing smartness, come before our eyes directly and yet in comparable form.
From Anarchism by Paul Eltzbacher
Yet from the first we feel that it is otherwise—that this light, genial, ease-loving nature has already, by its innate habitude of self-pleasing, foreordained itself to sink down into ever deeper and more utter debasement.
From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by John Crombie Brown
