self-regard

American  

[self-ri-gahrd, self-] / ˈsɛlf rɪˈgɑrd, ˌsɛlf- /

noun

1. consideration for oneself or one's own interests.

2. self-respect.

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self-regard British  

noun

1. concern for one's own interest

2. proper esteem for oneself

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Other Word Forms

• self-regarding
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of self-regard

First recorded in 1585–95

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Example Sentences

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self-regard

Instead, it’s happening in a climate-controlled studio in Los Angeles, where a Swedish football icon skilled in third person self-regard is tangling—or, perhaps, simply busting chops—with a polarizing American soccer loudmouth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

It was also a rebuke to the idea of grandiosity, in which inflated self-regard amounts to a distorted relationship with reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

The entire movie has a disappointing air of smug self-regard about it, with an expectation the audience will adore everything about the characters as much as they do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

Here, food is rarely appetizing, but it is always expressive, a kind of edible theater for the gang’s obsessions, failures and pathological self-regard.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025

The character has to project entitlement, a whiff of corrosive self-regard.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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