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self-complacent

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self-com·pla·cent (slfkm-plsnt)
adj.
Self-satisfied, often smugly so.
self-com·placen·cy n.
self-com·placent·ly adv.
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Adj.1.self-complacent - contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity"
complacent, self-satisfied
content, contented - satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are; "a contented smile"
Translations
self-complacent [ˌselfkəmˈpleɪsənt] ADJ → satisfecho de sí mismo


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It is that of flatterers, of whom courts are full, because men are so self-complacent in their own affairs, and in a way so deceived in them, that they are preserved with difficulty from this pest, and if they wish to defend themselves they run the danger of falling into contempt.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
No answering spark of kindness, no awakening penitence, but an unappeasable ill-humour, and a spirit of tyrannous exaction that increased with indulgence, and a lurking gleam of self-complacent triumph at every detection of relenting softness in my manner, that congealed me to marble again as often as it recurred; and this morning he finished the business:- I think the petrifaction is so completely effected at last that nothing can melt me again.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
As I extended my wanderings in the valley and grew more familiar with the habits of its inmates, I was fain to confess that, despite the disadvantages of his condition, the Polynesian savage, surrounded by all the luxurious provisions of nature, enjoyed an infinitely happier, though certainly a less intellectual existence than the self-complacent European.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
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