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
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
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
Call me a renegade from your self-complacent culture.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
But that is too long a time in the future, the average self-complacent American says, to be of any immediate interest.
From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by George Hebard Maxwell
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