self-satisfaction

Example Sentences

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You don’t feel the need to advertise your wealth and, despite your efforts, fancy stuff doesn’t make you feel like you’re looking in a mirror at an image of your own self-satisfaction.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

One pupil at Ysgol Stanwell in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, said there was a "sense of real self-satisfaction knowing that you've helped make a difference".

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025

But Thomson added the thought of any self-satisfaction inside the clubhouse was a stretch, especially after last season’s loss in the NL Championship Series to Arizona and the 2022 World Series loss to Houston.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024

We might also, in the moment and especially when we look back on it, squirm at Lydia’s self-satisfaction.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2023

Hungry Joe was irate and inconsolable until—of all people!—the chaplain was led in wearing a maroon corduroy bathrobe, shining like a skinny lighthouse with a radiant grin of self-satisfaction too tremendous to be concealed.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller