self-complacent
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-complacent
First recorded in 1755–65
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I never heard a more self-complacent speech in my life.
From Time Magazine Archive
The expression of inquisitive, self-complacent cunning in the woman’s face, and her actual blindness to the real facts of the matter, combined to arouse in Muriel an uncontrollable hostility.
From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal
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 Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
All the self-complacent chatter about self-annihilation during the Buddhist upheaval some decades ago has been translated into a veritable annihilation.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
But that is too long a time in the future, the average self-complacent American says, to be of any immediate interest.
From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by George Hebard Maxwell
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