self-complacent
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-complacent
First recorded in 1755–65
Example Sentences
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I never heard a more self-complacent speech in my life.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Has anybody else a desire to bet?" said Cloten, looking all around with a wonderfully self-complacent air.
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen
He was so boyish and impulsive, so gay and self-complacent that her anger gathered strength from his sheer light-heartedness.
From The Triumph of Jill by F.E. Mills Young
This young woman’s the most extraordinary specimen of self-complacent provinciality that I’ve ever encountered; she’s really too horrible and too humiliating.
From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by Henry James
Denin’s nerves had been on edge for the last few weeks, and he felt an unreasonable impulse of anger against the fat, self-complacent man.
From Where the Path Breaks by Charles de Créspigny
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