self-complacency
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A set of people less framed to provoke national self-complacency than the latter it would be hard to imagine.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry
In the active virtues nature can have a large share, and a dangerous self-complacency, or satisfaction in their effects, may easily glide into them.
From Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears by Quadrupani, Carlo Giuseppe
Then, in a tone of perfectly restored self-complacency, she produced a packet, and, with a parading look, that said, See what I bestow upon you! ostentatiously spread its contents upon a table.
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
They stood sedately looking on, with evident self-complacency, yet ashamed and afraid to take their places among the aged chiefs and warriors of repute.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
On the other hand we must not with smug self-complacency think that our generation is so much better than those of the past.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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