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• n  the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

• With the polished self-complacency of old-school oratory he recited the now ironic promises of the Democratic platform of 1932.
• Our quality of life may decline if people fail to recognize capitalism's ills, like greed and self-complacency, and if they lack compassion for their neighbors.

• complacency
• complacence
• self-satisfaction

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Irish Times
  In his meditation on the ninth station of the cross, the then Cardinal Ratzinger said: "How much filth there is in the church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to him! How much pride, how much self-complacency!"
• Mehmet Ali Talat in Turkish Daily News (subscription)
  It is a good and positive step, but it is only a start. We have to make progress without being overcome by self-complacency,Talat said in reference to the first court decision since introduction by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus...