self-satisfied
Example Sentences
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“Trust not: the self satisfied / the self / the satisfied / every other,” it reads.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2017
The second major factor is that our companies are not well managed, we are it seems a nation of David Brents - the self satisfied but useless office manager in the sitcom The Office.
From BBC • May 21, 2015
Not at all a happy or frank man, but not consciously unhappy nor intentionally insincere, and highly self satisfied intellectually.
From The Philanderer by Shaw, Bernard
People felt a sort of half-cowardly relief at beholding the prompt collapse of a miracle which was threatening to throw confusion into the self satisfied little fold of established truths.
From The Unknown Guest by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
Can it ever be established, for example, by the detached and self satisfied intellectual priggishness of the subsidised sixpenny review, or by the mere violence of the Labour extremist's oratory?
From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold
