Example Sentences

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Nevertheless, the kwedi is kept up, if for nothing else than to satisfy the self-complacence of the dead.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

Then she happened to become conscious of his presence and to see a look of uneasiness, self-complacence, as if he were thinking that he quite understood this puzzle.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham

"Don't," he begged, his self-complacence and superiority all gone.

From The Great God Success by Phillips, David Graham

Perhaps I should have gone on, striving to attain to the Bundian perfection had not the ex-judge himself been the instrument by which I was awakened and shaken out of my self-complacence.

From David Malcolm by Lloyd, Nelson

Nor did the knowledge in any way detract from their self-complacence or satisfaction with the match.

From Lord Kilgobbin by Lever, Charles James