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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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
Often would self-complacence spread Harmonious halos round my head; And all my being own'd awhile The warm diffusion of her smile.
From The Lay of Marie by Matilda Betham
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
At the Chancery bar of the second Charles, there was at least one lawyer, who in one year made considerably more than four times the income that was suggested to Pepys's vanity and self-complacence.
From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
Fortunately for the general self-complacence, however, the necessary revealing contrast was found in him.
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
