self-regard
Americannoun
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concern for one's own interest
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proper esteem for oneself
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of self-regard
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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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
On Wednesday, a group of pooh-bahs from college sports—an industry with boundless self-regard but limited ability to agree on anything—met with our elected pooh-bahs in Washington, D.C., who proudly do that for a living.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
And yet there is little doubt that these dudes have sucked millions of Americans into validating their delusion self-regard.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025
However, he believes that the current grievances aired by the likes of Bombshell are prompted more by self-regard than public interest.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
The character has to project entitlement, a whiff of corrosive self-regard.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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