self-complacent
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-complacent
First recorded in 1755–65
Example Sentences
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I never heard a more self-complacent speech in my life.
From Time Magazine Archive
This practicing often stood in the way of pleasures, and Jane, who had urgently entreated not to learn music, had many self-complacent little observations to make on her own prudence.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
These remarks, accompanied by a very self-complacent grin, proceeded from a young gentleman whose half-recumbent position in the tonneau was possibly more comfortable than dignified.
From The Auto Boys' Quest by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)
But what right have civilised men to exclaim, and look sublime and self-complacent about the matter?
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
Having thus happily launched himself, Theodore proceeded in his best Parliamentary style: holding forth with a power of self-complacent and steady boredom beyond his years.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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