Definition of "self-applause" []

• Applause of one's self. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• ""In his nightly round of self-applause last night, designed to drown out the echo of Daddy hitting him ...""
• "Maybe these emotions are reactions to sort of a self-applause."
• "But it's rarely heard, in substantial part because it's so often being drowned out by the self-applause and the obfuscating cacophony of that self-righteousness in general."