self-complacent
adjective
pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
self-complacently
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a word derived from
self-complacent.
Example Sentences
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And her husband grinned self-complacently as he looked at her, but he never admitted that she had any further authority to command him.
From Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Hansei grinned self-complacently, and now Sixtus acquainted him with the king's pleasure.
From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
Copies were liberally supplied to the press, and authors and publishers self-complacently awaited the result.
From The Bell-Ringer of Angel's by Bret Harte
She did not even fail to show him that a good willing boy was suffering for a wife's faithfulness toward her absent husband, who unsuspectingly and self-complacently was busy with alien things.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
The Professor smiled self-complacently, but said not a word.
From Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
