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Definition of Self-satisfied

1. Adjective. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction. "A smug glow of self-congratulation"

2. Adjective. Contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions. "His self-satisfied dignity"

Definition of Self-satisfied

1. Adjective. satisfied with oneself; especially too satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-satisfied

self-restraint self-retaining catheter self-right self-righteous self-righteously self-righteousness self-rising self-rising flour self-rule self-sabotage

self-sacrifice self-sacrifices self-sacrificing self-same self-satisfaction self-satisfied (current term) self-sealing self-secure self-seeded self-seeker

self-seeking self-selection self-selections self-serve self-service self-serving self-similar self-similarities self-similarity self-slaughter

Literary usage of Self-satisfied

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-Known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers (1916)
"So argues the self-satisfied burgher. If life were no more than a mere matter ... Even the material prosperity which the self-satisfied burgher desires will ..."

2. Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers (1916)
"So argues the self-satisfied burgher. If life were no more than a mere matter ... Even the material prosperity which the self-satisfied burgher desires will ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
""Just look at that self-satisfied young puppy ! " Miss Joy's partner exclaimed, pointing to Gilbert. "Come, I'll take you up to him and see whether he'll ..."

4. The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788 by Hugh Blair Grigsby (1890)
"self satisfied with th1s, unless the committee thought themselves entitled to ask a further explanation.228 Mason continued : " I have heard that opinion ..."

5. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1898)
"but hardy nags, armed only with a sheaf of javelins ; the cultivated, self-satisfied royal slave in his silken robe ; the half-naked ..."

6. Spiritualism by John Worth Edmonds, George T. Dexter, Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge (1855)
"THE self-satisfied. October 16, 1853. AT a meeting of the Circle of Progress, through Mrs. Sweet the following manifestation was made: Friends, ..."

7. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1845)
"He will walk about in the most happy ignorance of the general fun which his extreme self-satisfied bearing and peculiarities occasion; and instead of ..."

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