self-applauding

If Trump wants to deliver on his campaign promises — and get any sort of trade deal, which he seems to desperately want ahead of the midterms — he’d best stop self-applauding and get back to work.

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

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.

The vindictive P. T. was both so fortunate and so hearty in his commendations that he proved the mere echo of Pope in his self-applauding moods.

The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:— Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!