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• s  marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction
• s  contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
  his self-satisfied dignity

• These are questions just as vital for a self-satisfied age as they were for a revolutionary one.
• It would never occur to anyone that I am better read than all these self-satisfied rich people.
• With that, the tycoon eased into a dark red Mercedes, looking altogether self-satisfied.

• smug
• complacent
• self-complacent

News & Articles

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• Letter: Dueling comics
  Brad Watson, Naples: Doonesbury makes people laugh, regardless of political persuasion. Mallard Fillmore deliberately attacks and makes folks either smugly self-satisfied or angry at the blatant omission of critical facts.
  June 12, 2013 - Naples Daily News

Quotes

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• Ted Leonsis in SportingNews.com
  You have a plan, and you try to execute it, and you stay with it,owner Ted Leonsis said. "You can't be self-satisfied because we haven't won a Cup, but that's the plan. We saw you can't get really, really good unless you're really, really...
• Lionel Shriver in The Guardian
  OK, it's official,said Shriver on learning of her win. "Kevin no longer belongs to me, but to you lot. While I am abashed at this honour, Kevin himself is smugly self-satisfied. Think of all the attention that one school mass murder has...
• Bertrand Delanoe in China Daily
  Don't expect us to be self-satisfied,Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said. "Our team is more united, more determined [and] more combative than ever."