self-complacent
adjective
pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
self-complacence
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a word derived from
self-complacent.
Example Sentences
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As he said "river" he closed his eyes impressively, and stood there among them the image of self-complacence.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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 Nelson Lloyd
Somehow she would gladly have sealed both lips and ears to them and gone on basking uninterruptedly in the warmth of her sudden self-complacence.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
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 Horatio Alger
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 David Graham Phillips
