self-complacence
- a word derived from self-complacent.
Example Sentences
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My common sense tells me I can't hope to break through that shell of self-complacence you've been cased in by your family and your associates.
From The Deluge by Phillips, David Graham
The student here gathered full courage; and not without internal self-complacence in the certainty of highly gratifying Archivarius Lindhorst through his extraordinary talents, pulled out his drawings and specimens of penmanship from his pocket.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
Davy's self-complacence had been most trying to her nerves.
From The Conflict by Phillips, David Graham
Mr. Manning's face assumed a look of self-complacence as he uttered these last words.
From Making His Way Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward by Alger, Horatio
A limpid brook ripples in beauty and bloom by the side of your muddy, stagnant self-complacence, and you discern no essential difference.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
