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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-satisfied
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Doyle's self-satisfied smile irritated Haworth.
▪ He was in his early 40s and had the self-satisfied air of someone who has achieved fame and success.
▪ Sonnenberg strolled in, his chin held up at a self-satisfied angle.
▪ What makes a second-rate actress like Jean so self-satisfied, so over-confident?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As I watched in amazement, the partner gazed over her shoulder and gave me a big, mocking, self-satisfied wink.
▪ At last the self-satisfied crow ceased his terrible performance and took his bow.
▪ Casting a self-satisfied glance at me Shelly allowed herself to be picked up.
▪ In contrast the style of shareholding encouraged by privatisation is secure, self-satisfied.
▪ Shiona scowled into his face with its arrogant high cheekbones, self-satisfied mouth and eyes as hard as sapphires.
▪ They seemed to have a significance independent of the self-satisfied barristers and scurrying clerks who peopled them now.
▪ We shouldn't, however, go home fulfilled, self-satisfied and smug.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-satisfied

Self-satisfied \Self`-sat"is*fied\, a. Satisfied with one's self or one's actions; self-complacent.

Wiktionary
self-satisfied

a. satisfied with oneself; especially too satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.

WordNet
self-satisfied

  1. adj. marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation" [syn: smug]

  2. contented to a fault; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity" [syn: complacent]

Usage examples of "self-satisfied".

Simpson again favored Andi with an unfocused gaze and self-satisfied smile.

Count Sylvius was seated as he had been and I envied his calm, self-satisfied air.

It was a cruel insult that went home with all the more force because it emphasised the triumph of the patronising, self-satisfied Laurence.

Warren Jacobi shuffled in, a self-satisfied smirk puffing up his face.

He is wearing a narrow-shouldered summer suit of some linen imitation and having this nifty self-satisfied cloth hanging beside his ear annoys Rabbit.

Also, he didn't wear the wide-eyed, wary/innocent look of the tourist but a self-satisfied air of familiarity, of belonging.

I thought you the most odious, self-satisfied, boresome elderly prig I ever met.

This is the operating principle that guides the research of Niles Caulder, the Chief of the DOOM PATROL, as he deliberately provokes 'accidents' that transform self-satisfied conformists into companionless, existentially tormented super-heroes.

For he is, by heaven, the most self-satisfied, and the shallowest, and the most coxcombical and utterly brainless ass!

Ruby shook her head in doubt on the way back to the keep as the ditzy servant sashayed in front of her, self-satisfied with her latest imparting of rumors.

There was a small photo of Aitchison, too, beaming that self-satisfied smile, his glasses glinting.

Mona, if she thought about it, though she didn't often because of the regret it caused her, could blame Joanie's progression from adolescent rebellion to active dislike on the advent in the local amateur dramatic society of a certain plump self-satisfied thirty-year-old smooth-tongued Peregrine Vine, assistant to auctioneers of antiques and fine arts.

He holds the smoke in for a long minute and then breathes out like a self-satisfied dragon, relishing every moment of sensation and effect.

Her eyes were a deep, deep blue and held a breezy, self-satisfied expression.

You are in the hands of officials who zealously study your welfare and your interest, instead of turning their talents to the invention of new methods of discommoding and snubbing you, as is very often the main employment of that exceedingly self-satisfied monarch, the railroad conductor of America.