self-complacency
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Often, after a hard day's journey, I have asked myself this question, but seldom with the same self-complacency 254and the same determination to have mine ease as at Cracow.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Lloyd Stephens
It is not said, of course, that the number of his faculties is limited and unlimited; or that his self-complacency is boundless and constrained; or that his act is conditioned and unconditioned.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
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 Fanny Burney
A smile of self-complacency crossed her wasted face as she told me that a very few interviews had served to dispel all Lady Maria's prejudices against her.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
He takes the part which he thinks in most need of his support, not so much out of magnanimity, as to prevent too great a degree of presumption or self-complacency on the triumphant side.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
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