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Meaning esteem meaning

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Definitions in simple English

esteem

A good opinion of someone or respect for them. He was an author who was held in high esteem.

esteem

(formal) to respect somebody. Esteemed by all, Sharon was a good leader.

esteem

(= regard, respect) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) it is held in esteem a man who has earned high regard (= respect, prize, prise) regard highly; think much of I respect his judgement We prize his creativity (= respect) an attitude of admiration or esteem she lost all respect for him (= admiration) a feeling of delighted approval and liking (= think of, repute, look on) look on as or consider she looked on this affair as a joke He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician He is reputed to be intelligent

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Conjugation esteem conjugation

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esteem · verb

Examples esteem examples

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Simple sentences

Tom holds Mary in low esteem.
Mary has no self-esteem.
People with low self-esteem tend to interpret everything in a negative way.
Why do so many people suffer from low self-esteem?
Many people suffer from low self-esteem.
She's insecure and has low self esteem.
Tom has low self-esteem.
Mary has low self-esteem.
Tom is held in high esteem by his students and fellow teachers.
The lower your self-esteem, the more you tend to focus on negative things.
Tom has no self-esteem.
Respect makes relationships more durable, promises more reliable, silence more honest, freedom more possible, thinking more worthy of esteem.
Because of his achievements, he is held in high esteem.
She has no self-esteem.
His sense of humor was self-deprecating, a sign of his low self-esteem.
I hold my math teacher in high esteem.

Movie subtitles

Bishop Donahue said it's because I have no self-esteem and desperately want to fit in with by my peers.
Certain pagan religions esteem her. the highest of fertility symbols.
And present you, my dear boy, with this token of their affection and esteem.
Mr. Kristian is our best patron. We hold him in high esteem.
Mr. Chipping, we want you to accept this little token of esteem from the boys of Brookfield.
Therefore, in consideration of your kindness I take pleasure at this time in presenting you with a small token of our esteem and affection.
I've esteem for your character, but there's no advantage for the community if you stay. I'm asking for a huge sacrifice, but consider it to be a sacrifice and not a penance.
I hope you'll remember me by this little token of my regard and esteem.
This is the season of the year when men give gifts. to those they most esteem.
I esteem thee more than any other man.
May the rest of the world regard him with the same high esteem as does the government of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria.
This is proper way for men to show esteem for one another by looking upon each other's faces with calmness of spirit eyes meeting eyes in equal gaze bodies upright, standing as men were meant to stand with dignity and awareness of self.
I have here a token of my esteem and regard.
I esteem that you act to my late clients memory. to accept this request from him.
Her Majesty also asked me to give you this token of her esteem.
Only I might point out, old man, that you've fallen somewhat in my esteem.
On the contrary, I hold you in the highest esteem but only as a maid.
Sherry, all I can tell you is my esteem for you is so great that I changed trains in Chicago to spend 10 minutes with you and wish you a merry Christmas.
I've esteem for your character, but there's no advantage for the community if you stay.
My affection and esteem.
I know. He knows he has my esteem - and friendship.
He has great esteem for Mr. Topaze but he didn't decorate him. He decorated him morally.
But I want your esteem: a million or nothing.
If you esteem me enough to share a secret, it'll remain buried inside me, I swear to you.
And be rewarded by the esteem of all who know him.
And because these are the racially best of the German nation. they can in the proudest self-esteem. claim the leadership of the Reich and the people.
WE SHALL NEVER BE ABLE TO ESTEEM OURSELVES AGAIN.
Out of esteem for your talent.
Because I value your esteem.
Giving it a fake killer in the hopes of tweaking the real one's self-esteem.
You gotta use reverse psychology, smack her self esteem.
People will only esteem you the more for it.
You know I admire you, and I respect you. but you'd rise in my esteem if you'd show me one greater quality.
You're a victim of a preconception of self-esteem.
It's self-esteem.
At least I'll leave with the esteem of my opponents.
I commit myself in front of the future queen of Mersabad and I won't feel worthy of her esteem in accepting me, as her husband, if I don't succeed in killing all those that are responsible for such an atrocity.

News and current affairs

Radical losers are mostly young men who are so enraged by their own lack of social, economic, and sexual self-esteem and the indifference of the world around them, that they long for a suicidal act of mass destruction.
The other factors - equipment, coaching, and nutrition - contribute to an athlete's success but don't evoke the same awe or esteem.
As depression worsens, feelings of extreme sadness and hopelessness combine with low self-esteem, guilt, memory loss, and concentration difficulties to bring about a severely painful state of mind.
The high esteem in which Palestinians hold Hamas also grew out of what Hamas actually did for them while the PA squandered its resources.
In all the Indian protests about the terrible blow dealt by the Americans to Indian self-esteem, only a few mentioned the habitual exploitation of the poorer classes.
Bringing the Baltic states into Nato, Russia claims, would severely compromise its security (for that read Russian self-esteem).
A Nobel Peace Prize for them would have shown the West that Muslims can be good peacemakers and, equally important, it would have sent a message of hope to the Islamic populations of the world that have seen their self-esteem eroded by stories of failure.
But the real issue is self-esteem and the social-comparison processes that psychologist Leon Festinger observed as a universal human trait.
There may be a sense of shame, and a loss of self-esteem, at being poor, even in hard times.
But the effects of unemployment on a person's self-esteem are less easily measured.
After all, no group cares more about a university's prestige than its alumni, who gain or lose esteem as their alma mater's ranking rises or falls.
It has been a while since any national figure won such high esteem.
Work-sharing might keep more people marginally attached to their jobs in an economic slump, thereby preserving their self-esteem.
They fear the future, because the future means either market-oriented reforms or further economic and political downgrading, both of which are seen as unacceptable, if only because they clash with French self-esteem.
If handled correctly, however, the crisis may yet raise the esteem of the European Union and its institutions.
New data in the West reveal that we have not necessarily raised a generation of daughters who are exuding self-respect and self-esteem.
Toledo's advisors had urged honesty, assuring him that he would rise in public esteem by coming clean.
Whether America is able to strengthen its global influence in the future will depend not so much on its moral esteem, but on the extent to which it succeeds in revamping its economy and forging new alliances.
Moreover, low self-esteem exacerbates a feeling of helplessness and lack of control.
Indeed, self-esteem is one of the most powerful human needs: a view of our own success relative to others provides us with a sense of meaning and well-being.
Government leaders find it hard to address economic risks to the nation because it is impolitic to call into question the self-esteem of their constituency.

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