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
He was a striking instance of the importance which self-complacent mediocrity can obtain in a newly-settled community, in spite of ponderous stupidity.
From Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
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 Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
“I dare say he did want me,” was Harriet’s self-complacent remark.
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison
It is usual for our self-complacent generation to consider that it was not until our own time that rational measures for the care of the insane were taken.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
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