self-applauding

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"That's because they have nothing to lose," said mine host, with the chuckle of a self-applauding wit.

From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

"Ve've got summat, at last," said the Tinker, with a self-applauding glance at his friends.

From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison

Mrs. Troyle paused again, with the self-applauding air of one who has detected an asp lurking in an apple-charlotte.

From The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki

The well-known line, "Sum pius Æneas, famâ super æthere notus," occurs too frequently to render it possible to take any interest in such a self-applauding character.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

The spectators who feel no abhorrence at a public execution, but rather a self-applauding superiority, and a sense of gratified indignation, are surely excited to the most inauspicious emotions.

From A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Shelley, Percy Bysshe