self-satisfied
Example Sentences
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Although her Schiaparelli look is more like “Madame B” for “Boring,” especially at an event like the Met Gala, it’s at least a somewhat interesting — if self-satisfied — commentary.
From Salon ● May 6, 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 captain, however, has been watching, and when the parrot flaps off very self-satisfied, he confiscates my pencil and pad.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
