self-complacency
Americannoun
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Often, after a hard day's journey, I have asked myself this question, but seldom with the same self-complacency 254and the same determination to have mine ease as at Cracow.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Lloyd Stephens
What becomes of our righteousness, our merit, our self-satisfaction, our self-complacency?
From Sermons by J. B. Lightfoot
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 Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
Its contents were evidently satisfactory: the old man elevated his eyebrows as he read, sniffed twice or thrice, and then yielded to a smile of irrepressible self-complacency.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
Ever and again the stern monitor death rises up an unbidden guest, an unwelcome spectre in the midst of our worldliness and self-complacency, scaring us with the suddenness of the apparition.
From Sermons by J. B. Lightfoot
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