self-satisfied
Example Sentences
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Although her Schiaparelli look is more like “Madame B” for “Boring,” especially at an event like the Met Gala, it’s at least a somewhat interesting — if self-satisfied — commentary.
From Salon • May 6, 2026
And Calder Gardens, for all the undoubted talent and imagination it displays, sadly turns its back on its Parkway context with a self-satisfied aloofness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025
Several of the figures rest a self-satisfied hand at the apex of their bump.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
His cameos as Blazes Boylan, jitterbugging across the stage with the self-satisfied air of a country rake, were not just enlivening but renewing, capturing the character in a new idiom.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025
A few months earlier, on the first day of sixth grade, Carol Horning came into class wearing a slight but unmistakably self-satisfied smile.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
