ADJECTIVE
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marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction
a smug glow of self-congratulation -
contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
he had become complacent after years of success
his self-satisfied dignity
How To Use self-satisfied In A Sentence
- This certitude explains to this bigot why he has such a self-satisfied smirk in his photo.
- Any measure that shakes up this self-satisfied and complacent group is to be encouraged. Times, Sunday Times
- They hated that conceited, self-satisfied creature.
- I would relish the opportunity, as I placed my cross on the ballot paper, to think of wiping the permanently smug, self-satisfied smirk from his arrogant, squirrel-cheeked, toffee-nosed features.
- It was full of self-satisfied, self-congratulatory claptrap designed to fool the public - I will come back to that in a moment.
- The rosy tint in their cheeks is not from tending the land; it comes from being smug and self-satisfied. Times, Sunday Times
- Leslie Joseph portrays the small-minded, priggish, self-satisfied spinster to a T.
- You frequently encounter a stereotype of Americans as self-satisfied and smug.
- In a vacuum or at the state level they are vulnerable to the self-satisfied: cruisers, well-funded sinecures, bloviators, experts without portfolios or the simply ineffective.
- At the same time, Hals's celebration of the materiality of his medium is so seductive that sheer painterliness often overrides all other concerns, including the fact that his subjects are often blunt-featured, fleshy, self-satisfied types whose company you might not seek. Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
