self-satisfied
Example Sentences
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And Calder Gardens, for all the undoubted talent and imagination it displays, sadly turns its back on its Parkway context with a self-satisfied aloofness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025
Several of the figures rest a self-satisfied hand at the apex of their bump.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
His cameos as Blazes Boylan, jitterbugging across the stage with the self-satisfied air of a country rake, were not just enlivening but renewing, capturing the character in a new idiom.
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
The brawny one, the one with the self-satisfied, scornful demeanor, was the leader.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
