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self-respecting en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English respecting English self-respecting From self- + respecting.

Meanings

1. Having self-respect; having pride or knowledge of one's own worth.
   • Not since a journalist morphed into Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate has a metamorphosis been so jarring. Of course, there were clues: Michael kicked a puppy in the very second episode, and no self-respecting Elysium so closely resembles a chichi outdoor mall in Pasadena. 2017 September 20, Sophie Gilbert, “The Good Place Is Still TV Heaven”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2018:
   • Now, when you awfulize you go beyond that and tell yourself, instead “It's horrible, awful and terrible!” You then mean several things, all of which are clearly unprovable and which any self-respecting Martian with an IQ of 100 could easily see through. 2010, Michael E. Bernard, Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Legacy of Albert Ellis:
   • No self-respecting man would tolerate such an insult.

Forms

Translations (5)

vi tự tôn (having self-respect) · nl zichzelf respecterend (having self-respect) · pl ambitny (having self-respect) · vi tự trọng (having self-respect) · gv arrymagh er hene (having self-respect)