self-satisfied

Definition

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

Etymology

From self- + satisfied.

Example Sentences

• "He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression."
• "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."
• "And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]"