self-complacency

American  

[self-kuhm-play-suhn-see] / ˈsɛlf kəmˈpleɪ sən si /

noun

1. the state of being smug or overly pleased with oneself; self-satisfaction, smugness.

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Example Sentences

Self′-contempt′, contempt for one's self; Self′-content′, self-complacency; Self′-contradic′tion, the act or fact of contradicting one's self: a statement of which the terms are mutually contradictory.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Then, in a tone of perfectly restored self-complacency, she produced a packet, and, with a parading look, that said, See what I bestow upon you! ostentatiously spread its contents upon a table.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

The autobiography in Latin verse, with its playful humour, occasional pathos and sublime self-complacency, was thrown off at the age of eighty-four.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

If we may believe the psychologists, the great object of acquiring wealth and power is the achievement of self-complacency.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)

Even when he satirises himself his irony is only a veil—a very thin veil, which rather suggests than conceals his self-complacency.

From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.