self-respecting | meaning of self-respecting in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishself-respectingˌself-reˈspecting adjective [only before noun]    PRIDE/SELF-RESPECThaving respect for yourself and your abilities and beliefsno/any self-respecting ... would do something  No self-respecting actor would appear in a porn movie.Examples from the Corpusself-respecting• It was the kind of station, and nobody tried to disguise it, where self-respecting disc jockeys were never found.• Not that any self-respecting journalist would do that, of course.• No self-respecting lady or gent would use it now.• So far as any self-respecting mechanic was concerned, he knew nothing.• It went without saying that the truly self-respecting native was the one who understood the indecency of aspiring beyond his station.• As at any other self-respecting nursery, we always gathered ours up and burned them - but not these lads.• Yet no self-respecting third-party candidate runs for election simply to destroy one big party and elevate the other.no/any self-respecting ... would do something• Not that any self-respecting journalist would do that, of course.