self-satisfied

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Though scrupulously executed, they often look self-satisfied and rhetorical.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Several of the figures rest a self-satisfied hand at the apex of their bump.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

My sermon — which I would deliver sloppily in the smoking section at parties, annoyingly self-satisfied and convinced that I had figured it all out — became this: If you’re cool now, you’re cool forever.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

My mind travels back to those self-satisfied film obsessives marveling at male genius, and how they would have praised both Tarantino for his commitment to artistic realism and Thurman for gamely playing along.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2023

I glanced at the man sitting across the carpet from Samir—an elder from the East, with a mustache as thin as a razor and the self-satisfied look of an educated man.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri