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• n  the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect

• The officer, Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), is a nastily smooth operator: oozing charm like pus, with a courtly tone and a preening self-regard.
• Iran has been ruled by kings for most of its 3,000 years of recorded historya long succession of autocrats prone to exaggerated self-regard.
• Ulysses may have resisted the sirens, but Beowulf's self-regard leads him to think he can bed Grendma and then best her.

• dignity
• self-respect
• self-worth

News & Articles

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• The unbearable narcissism (and ‘complete awesomeness’) of Kanye’s big ‘Yeezus’ interview
  Beyoncé may be “more powerful than mind can even digest and understand” — but her inflated sense of self-regard
  June 12, 2013 - Entertainment Weekly

Quotes

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• Alan Johnson in guardian.co.uk
  But the education secretary, Alan Johnson, said that the public would be looking for the "substance and experience" that the chancellor provided against the "personal attacks and the shallow self-regard" of Mr Osborne.
• Lee Kuan Yew in International Herald Tribune
  People are saying: 'Well, this is an Indonesia with some self-respect and self-regard and a sense of responsibility to the world around it, its neighbors and everybody else,Lee said in remarks carried on the Web site of Singapore's 938Live...
• Joan Burton in Irish Times
  Ms Burton added: "Anglo [Irish Bank] supplied the developers and the developers were the funders to Fianna Fáil and in that circle of self-regard, in that toxic triangle, in that golden triangle, there's where the ruin of our system lay".