The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-approving \Self`-ap*prov"ing\, a. Approving one's own action or character by one's own judgment.
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs
Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas.
--Pope.
Usage examples of "self-approving".
The crowd was gathering, some vendors sold hot chocolate in tall ceramic glasses, and a crowd of self-approving youngsters amused themselves and bothered some elderly people by singing a parody of an old unionist hymn of the season.
Because this effort of yours aligns the Pistach with their traditional inclinations, those of self-approving benignity, and because we owed a debt to the intermediary, we cooperated in this effort.
The cop's self-approving smirk grew and spread out into a riot of angry colors.
He laughed the self-approving laugh of one who knows that he has done a good deed.
To do good in secret, and shun the world's applause, is the surest testimony of a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.
At the door he left her, in self-approving haughtiness, and tramped the lawn.