self-satisfied

adj

self-satisfied

adj

Etymology From self- + satisfied.

1

Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.

He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

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And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]1994, Craig Brown, The hounding of John Thomas:

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