self-complacent
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-complacent
First recorded in 1755–65
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I never heard a more self-complacent speech in my life.
From Time Magazine Archive
The expression of inquisitive, self-complacent cunning in the woman’s face, and her actual blindness to the real facts of the matter, combined to arouse in Muriel an uncontrollable hostility.
From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal
But what right have civilised men to exclaim, and look sublime and self-complacent about the matter?
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
In the book there are several persons: the disgraced student Yourii, who is self-complacent to the point of morbidity; his lovely sister, and her betrothed.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
This is true, and these virtues are becoming artificial, and so false, as soon as they grow self-complacent.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
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