The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-complacent \Self`-com*pla"cent\, a. Satisfied with one's own character, capacity, and doings; self-satisfied.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1760, back-formation from self-complacency or else from self- + complacent. Related: Self-complacently.
Wiktionary
a. Complacently self-satisfied
Usage examples of "self-complacent".
Though he knew de Batz to be an ardent Royalist, and even an active adherent of the monarchy, he was soon conscious of a vague sense of mistrust of this pompous, self-complacent individual, whose every utterance breathed selfish aims rather than devotion to a forlorn cause.
Yes, it was an astonishing thing to see the Mississippi rolling between unpeopled shores and straight over the spot where I used to see a good big self-complacent town twenty years ago.
As I extended my wanderings in the valley and grew more familiar with the habits of its inmates, I was fain to confess that, despite the disadvantages of his condition, the Polynesian savage, surrounded by all the luxurious provisions of nature, enjoyed an infinitely happier, though certainly a less intellectual existence than the self-complacent European.