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self-satisfied

[ self-sat-is-fahyd, self- ]

adjective

  1. feeling or showing satisfaction with oneself.

    Synonyms: puffed-up, vain, smug, complacent



self-satisfied

adjective

  1. having or showing a complacent satisfaction with oneself, one's own actions, behaviour, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌself-ˌsatisˈfaction, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-satisfied1

First recorded in 1725–35
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Example Sentences

Urban economists, particularly those on the self-satisfied coasts, tend to envision utter hopelessness for the region.

Then they stood in front of the chalkboard, smug and self-satisfied.

Little will actually be solved other than a generation exhaling with self-satisfied relief.

“I guess I felt it to be stodgy, self-satisfied, maybe a little dull,” he confesses.

So, what are self-satisfied European leaders and the forgiving bond markets overlooking?

I thought Mr. Wilmot would think great things of it—it was all wrong and self-satisfied.

I think so, at least, by the agitation they are in and by the self-satisfied air with which they applaud their success.

Meanwhile the bear retired to his pedestal and sat down upon it with a graceful and self-satisfied air.

There is a serene self-satisfied smirk on the marble face, which looks more like that of a woman than a man.

The woods closed in on him again, he left the stone-breaker behind, and his face soon assumed its usual self-satisfied expression.

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