Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Satisfied with one's abilities and virtues.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Satisfied with one's self or one's actions; self-complacent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
satisfied with oneself; especially too satisfied;smug ; slightlyarrogant
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
- adjective marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was a window just ahead of us, and standing next to it was Sharee, her arms folded, her expression self-satisfied.
Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001
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There was a window just ahead of us, and standing next to it was Sharee, her arms folded, her expression self-satisfied.
Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001
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There was a window just ahead of us, and standing next to it was Sharee, her arms folded, her expression self-satisfied.
Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001
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Mr Miliband told him: "You and your Chancellor are but the byword for self-satisfied, smug complacency and that is the reality."
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"You and your Chancellor are the byword for self-satisfied, smug complacency," he said.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Tim Ross 2012
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Describing the government's attitude as one of "total arrogance", Miliband told Cameron at PMQs: "You and your chancellor are but the byword for self-satisfied, smug complacency and that is the reality."
The Guardian World News Andrew Sparrow 2012
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"You and your Chancellor are the byword for self-satisfied, smug complacency," he said.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Tim Ross 2012
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That you find this self-satisfied hipster gibberish “insightful” is astonishing.
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I find it hard to imagine a more oversampled, overstudied subgroup white kids in cities. “self-satisfied hipster gibberish.”
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The Ivy League is a wired con — designed to ensure the self-satisfied elites that they are elite.
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