self-regard
noun
self-re·gard
ˌself-ri-ˈgärd 
: regard for or consideration of oneself or one's own interests
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Being from Brooklyn fits her well; smooth self-regard and tight-lipped maturity — qualities popularized by the Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and even Pop Smoke — are her calling cards.
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Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
What might seem like virtue can also read as oblivious self-regard.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
What that amounts to is that Garvey is running a campaign of vanity and self-regard.
—Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
Still, punk, born specifically in reaction to rock’s decadent self-regard, presents a uniquely hard case.
—Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Mayor Eric Adams’s exuberant self-regard stops just short of biceps-kissing.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
This is moral vanity, Edelman admits: a professional charmer’s eagerness to flatter other people’s self-regard as a way of buttressing his own.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 June 2023
The self always related persons to its own identity: self-regard, self-destruction, self-love.
—Olga Tokarczuk, Harper's Magazine, 6 Jan. 2023
Grant, ideally cast, plays Sinclair’s braying, stentorian self-regard to the hilt, prompting viewers to wonder just how much of his reputation is down to talent and how much to bullish entitlement.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 June 2023
Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
What might seem like virtue can also read as oblivious self-regard.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
What that amounts to is that Garvey is running a campaign of vanity and self-regard.
—Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
Still, punk, born specifically in reaction to rock’s decadent self-regard, presents a uniquely hard case.
—Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Mayor Eric Adams’s exuberant self-regard stops just short of biceps-kissing.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
This is moral vanity, Edelman admits: a professional charmer’s eagerness to flatter other people’s self-regard as a way of buttressing his own.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 June 2023
The self always related persons to its own identity: self-regard, self-destruction, self-love.
—Olga Tokarczuk, Harper's Magazine, 6 Jan. 2023
Grant, ideally cast, plays Sinclair’s braying, stentorian self-regard to the hilt, prompting viewers to wonder just how much of his reputation is down to talent and how much to bullish entitlement.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 June 2023
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First Known Use
1595, in the meaning defined above
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self-regard
noun
self-re·gard
ˌsel-fri-ˈgärd
: regard for or consideration of oneself or one's own interests
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