self-satisfied
Example Sentences
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“Trust not: the self satisfied / the self / the satisfied / every other,” it reads.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2017
The second major factor is that our companies are not well managed, we are it seems a nation of David Brents - the self satisfied but useless office manager in the sitcom The Office.
From BBC • May 21, 2015
People felt a sort of half-cowardly relief at beholding the prompt collapse of a miracle which was threatening to throw confusion into the self satisfied little fold of established truths.
From The Unknown Guest by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
Not at all a happy or frank man, but not consciously unhappy nor intentionally insincere, and highly self satisfied intellectually.
From The Philanderer by Shaw, Bernard
If you could ensure his jobbery I am well self satisfied of his success.
From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Begbie, Harold
