self-congratulatory
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Self-congratulatory, defiant, and morose, the issue remembers some of the Guardian’s greatest hits over the years, its habit of “printing the news and raising hell.”
From Slate • Jan. 26, 2015
Self-congratulatory, combining limitless prudery with limitless zeal, the expurgator haunted the live authors of the 19th century, and the dead authors of every century previous.
From Time Magazine Archive
