self-satisfied

English

self-satisfied (comparative more self-satisfied, superlative most self-satisfied)

Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.
He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
  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.

satisfied with oneself

German: selbstzufrieden
Greek: εφησυχασμένος (el) (efisychasménos)
Japanese: 独り善がり (ja) (ひとりよがり, hitoriyogari), 自己満足する (じこまんぞくする, jikomanzoku suru)
Russian: самодово́льный (ru) (samodovólʹnyj)
Swedish: självbelåten (sv) c

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