How To Use amour propre In A Sentence
- Revenge is sweet, saith the phrasemonger, and to the old lady whose discipline had been flouted and whose amour propre had been rudely shaken it was very sweet indeed. Who Cares? a story of adolescence
- The autobiographer can incline towards self-criticism as a defence against charges of inappropriate amour propre. The Times Literary Supplement
- Judging from the amount of noise she was making, Max didn't think Phyllis could have sustained any real injury, except to her amour propre. THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
- She has not yet developed what Rousseau called amour propre - love of one's own, in the sense of loving one's own position/status/reputation viz. others. Archive 2007-01-07
- Still, this finesse would save the Irish government’s amour propre, and allow it to claim that it has not (yet) abandoned Ireland’s hard-won sovereignty.
