self-complacently

• a word derived from self-complacent.
  self-complacent

  adjective

  pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.

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self-complacently

This ritual the worthy explorers self-complacently describe as "blood-thirsty."

From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis

Blanka shuddered in spite of herself, and drew her shawl more closely about her, while her foe crossed one leg over the other and smiled self-complacently.

From Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania by Percy Favor Bicknell

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 publisher self-complacently awaited the result.

From My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. by Various

He laughed self-complacently, and held out his hand.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 by Charles W. Wood

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