Example Sentences

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She was really a "gentlewoman," in the self-pitying and self-praising sense in which those who advertise themselves as such use that word.

From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy

He is not self-praising, and therefore he has merit.

From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Besant, Annie Wood

But this man had not the childlike mind, neither did he tremble like the sinner; his thoughts were still the self-praising thoughts in which he had fallen asleep.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.