When her friend Abigail visited a poor woman with ten children, Sarah focused not on what Abigail did to help them, but on her friend's ‘engaging’ appearance and ‘smile of complacency and self-approbation’.
Definition of self-approbation in US English:
self-approbation
nounˈˌself ˌaprəˈbāSHən
he chuckled in self-approbation
another term for self-approval
Example sentencesExamples
When her friend Abigail visited a poor woman with ten children, Sarah focused not on what Abigail did to help them, but on her friend's ‘engaging’ appearance and ‘smile of complacency and self-approbation’.