It makes us self-complacent, easily satisfied with what we perform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education and the Higher Life] Reference

It lacks the self-complacent unreasonableness of Board of Works classicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Utopia] Reference

The self-complacent ignorance with which this remark was made was ludicrous in the extreme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Englishwoman in America] Reference

The day you become too self-complacent will be the day you stop noticing this very same nay-saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Question of the week.] Reference

We are not so self-complacent as to rest satisfied with our improvement either as regards our minds or our circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

Nell woke with a start when the stream of self-complacent comment had ceased, and realized that she was being asked to decide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

They belong to a self-complacent time, and we to a time of doubt and unsatisfied aspiration, and the two spirits are unsympathetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voltaire] Reference

Oh, hideousness of self-complacent, unbending, cheaply bought virtue; thou art almost more revolting than the frank hideousness of vice!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference

Stolid and self-complacent, theirs was an unquestioning faith, accepting, as they did, the Divine decrees as a Mohamedan accepts his fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference

Mr. SATCHELL had feared that the young man who tells the story might be found a little too self-complacent no protest would have been sounded by me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference

Red-haired girl, who was remarkably ugly and self-complacent, had been a wallflower all the evening, but thought none the less of herself on that account.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Midas] Reference

Anger and astonishment kept Mrs. Lilias silent, — while her old friend, in his self-complacent manner, was making known to her his political speculations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

I shall never forget the greedy but pitilessly composed and self-complacent curiosity with which she listened, also standing, and I shall never forgive her for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

He debated, therefore, in his self-complacent reveries, whether he should take prompt advantage of the weakness of his victim, or pique her by the malice of suspense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

A select party of three or four perch on the bushes which skirt a small grassy plain, and cheer themselves with the music of their own quiet and self-complacent song.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference

Alexey Sergeitch had a little nasal, piping voice, and an invariable smile — kindly, but, as it were, condescending, and not without a certain self-complacent dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Desperate Character] Reference

To my great surprise he allowed that I might be right, but averred that when brought into contact with either men or women of the coarse, self-complacent quality, whereof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

"Guess this ride must make you feel ticklish, too," suggested Peace, looking over her shoulder with a comical, self-complacent air at the crowded rear seat of the carryall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Lady] Reference

Therefore he was hopeful, self-complacent, and resolute.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Sombre Rivals] Reference

Grey and Mr Hawes looking very grim and self-complacent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe] Reference

It was self-complacent, yet there was small apparent ground for such complacence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

She was self-complacent, but she was also a woman with an unmistakable physical appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Mother] Reference

Samuel Wilberforce, the plausible and self-complacent Bishop of Oxford, commonly known as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference

Can there be anything more odious, "he burst out," than such a self-complacent blindness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villa Rubein, and other stories] Reference

He began to feel a little self-complacent, and to reflect that he had underrated his own courage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Adventurer or Tom's Trip Across the Plains] Reference

Again, may not this thought somehow take down our easy-going and self-complacent estimate of ourselves?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

Once more, in my self-complacent simplicity I felt that the time had arrived for me to rise up and be a reformer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches New and Old] Reference

"I know better," retorts the critic, settling himself in his seat, with sullen but self-complacent immovableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")] Reference

The speech ends with a somewhat self-complacent exhortation to the poor, tortured man: 'We have searched it, so it is.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

If so, we are sorry to have to dispel an illusion which would go far to justify the self-complacent tone of her lecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference

"I thought I'd lost some of my gifts if I could not talk a body to sleep," said Sally, in a satisfied and self-complacent tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth] Reference

Yes, I understand him, because for most of the time I myself am supremely dull, childishly dogmatic, beautifully self-complacent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference

These other people may easily be assumed to be fidgety, meticulous, self-complacent purists; and as we read the short stories of Guy de.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

Let me here premise, that, in dwelling on this topic, I should revolt at the thought of administering to a vain, self-complacent spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Maiden] Reference