Thesaurus / self-satisfied

self-satisfied

How to use self-satisfied in a sentence

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

It seems to me that such verses as these might very well have satisfied the English admirers of Klopstock.

But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?

He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfied—not even himself.

Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.

These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.

As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.

I must aspire to the agitating transports of self-devotion, in scenes of sacrifice and peril!

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985