self-complacency

[self-kuhm-play-suhn-see]

noun

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

Example Sentences

From ‘the frigid heights of an infallible egotism . . . wrapped in sublime self-complacency,’ Davis ‘has alienated the hearts of the people by his stubborn follies’ and ‘his chronic hallucinations that he is a great military genius.’

From Washington Post

The self-complacency of virtuous men, 64, 65, and note.

From Project Gutenberg

It must have been no common stock of self-possession and self-complacency which enabled M. Thiers to present himself before the great Prussian Chancellor as a messenger of peace.

From Project Gutenberg

He takes the part which he thinks in most need of his support, not so much out of magnanimity, as to prevent too great a degree of presumption or self-complacency on the triumphant side.

From Project Gutenberg

They stood sedately looking on, with evident self-complacency, yet ashamed and afraid to take their places among the aged chiefs and warriors of repute.

From Project Gutenberg