self-satisfied
Example Sentences
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So it’s not, perhaps, the best time for Meta, whose frames have drawn comparisons to Cybertrucks as exemplars of self-satisfied ostentation, to debut Starfire Kylies.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
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
The same wind I’ve always felt my entire life—the Call of the Void—but now it surges not just before me but all around me with self-satisfied omnipotence.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
