self-satisfaction
Example Sentences
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Asked how Mr Ali looked, she told the jury: "Self-satisfaction, I would describe it."
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2022
Self-satisfaction took over a number of our players," Walsh says plainly, "a feeling that they could now relax.
From Time Magazine Archive
Self-satisfaction beamed upon her ample face as she found herself at length in constant intercourse and on a social equality—as she thought—with the potentates and powers and great ones of the earth.
From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur
Self-satisfaction, self-absorption, self-sufficiency, have had a sobering shock.
From White Ashes by Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)
Self-satisfaction depends, as has been said, on the kind of self we are aiming at, and that in turn depends on the kind of self we are.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
