self-congratulatingly

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1. In a self-congratulating manner.

   Ellerbee’s stuff can be self-congratulatingly sassy, and sometimes is here.

   1986 September 25, Tom Shales, “Our World: ABC’s Backward Glance”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   But with Rooney on a reported £50k a week - 1,100 visits to the Auld Slapper, as one tabloid self-congratulatingly pointed out - will fame go to his head faster than the school snitch?

   2004 September 1, Sean Ingle, Rob Smyth, “Elizabeth Taylor; and Toni and Guy”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2014

   The tradition of the Surrealist assemblage lies behind these works, but they are not so self-congratulatingly witty as such objects can be; […]

   2005 June 24, Ken Johnson, “The Listings: June 24-July 1; Arthur Simms”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015

   If British welfare provision is to have a self-consciously moral underpinning again (for recipients – its morality for donors sadly seems self-congratulatingly obvious enough), this will cost money we don't have.

   2010 August 11, Christopher Montgomery, “This coalition's incoherent first chapter”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2026

   There’s nothing startlingly original about Estevez’s screenplay, yet it has a modesty you seldom see when Hollywood tackles spiritual subjects. It doesn’t pour on the schmaltz, or self-congratulatingly condescend to foreigners the way that say, the dreadful “Eat Pray Love’’ did.

   2011 October 7, Lou Lumenick, “There’s gotta be a ‘Way’”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2014