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adj. - Having or showing confidence.

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  • A thoroughly self-respectful person will command respect anywhere.
  • He was esteemed, self-respectful, and happy; and all these things tend to good health and good looks.
  • No waffling here about fulfilling dreams, but a really self-respectful awareness of what drew her enthusiasms and the problems she was going to have to face.
  • Now by the side of the person who carries an unsuspicious, self-respectful, open face, into any presence, such people as these seem unworthy of the race to which they...
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