Feelings of excessive pride.
1But impersonality has prevented the Far Oriental from having much amour propre.
2Heller took Rushdie to task for what she called his magisterial amour propre.
3Mr. Bing is to have appealed to the tenor's amour propre.
4How difficult it is, you see, to rid one's self of amour propre!
5When the amour propre is pleased, the tongue is freed.
6Yes, no matter at what cost to your amour propre.
7The acute reasoning of Lemercier humbled his amour propre.
8He flushed with a sense of wounded amour propre.
9Will the jealous amour propre of France permit the swords of Germany to remain sheathed?
10There is a little amour propre in the assertion, but upon the whole it is true.
11Lydia's ' amour propre' was wounded in an incurable manner by that revelation of her own peculiarity.
12And so he went back quite eased in his mind, but considerably bruised in his amour propre.
13He had the power of observation habitual to persons whose sensitive amour propre has frequently been wounded.
14For three-quarters of a century our ' amour propre' was constantly kept raw by the most supercilious patronage.
15Vanity is never foreign to these false ideas, which are always of a nature to flatter one's amour propre.
16There was nothing in this speech to offend Malcolm's amour propre, nevertheless a dull flush mounted to his brow.
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