self-satisfied

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English satisfied English self-satisfied From 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.”

   “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.”