self-satisfied

comparative more self-satisfied · superlative most self-satisfied

1. Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.

   He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.

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   From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]

   1994, Craig Brown, The hounding of John Thomas

   Synonyms: smug, complacent