How To Use Self-satisfaction In A Sentence
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She laughs, radiant in her self-satisfaction, shielded by a hard hide and chutzpa from charges of vulgarity, greed or egomania.
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The self-satisfaction and smugness of the text is toe-curling and its frequent sickening doses of sentimentality are like being forced-fed chopped liver with chicken fat.
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For three decades his sideline as a UFO writer/publisher generated extra income and self-satisfaction.
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The term Victorian today sometimes recalls Queen Victorias stands on personal moral issues and may suggest prudery or a moral self-satisfaction.
Victoria, Queen
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Also, our ideological and theoretical workers should always guard against self-satisfaction, narrow-minded conservatism and ignorant boasting, failings which Comrade Mao Zedong warned us against.
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There is no room whatever for smugness or self-satisfaction on their part.
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If Bosher could have seen the effect of this elegant extract upon the captain he would probably have "joyed" with infinite self-satisfaction.
The Willoughby Captains
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Advertising is the cheerleader for sexism, misogyny, racism and a vaunting masculine self-satisfaction.
Times, Sunday Times
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What you encounter is a glow of contentment which stops a safe distance from self-satisfaction; from such a happy condition the book takes its tone.
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They may not realize how close self-satisfaction is to self-contempt.
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Purists were quick to counter-attack accusations that the legislation threatened individual liberty and encouraged prudish self-satisfaction.
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The owner, now at the wheel, was the essence of decent self-satisfaction; a baldish, largish, level-eyed man, rugged of neck but sleek and round of face — face like the back of a spoon bowl.
Main Street
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It might be that her fretfulness was the effect of an uneasiness of mind, which was more hopeful than her previous fierce self-satisfaction, and that her aberrations were the last efforts of old evil habits to re-establish their grasp by custom, when her heart was becoming detached from them.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
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It was led by Captain Pugwash with a large barrel of brandy and a look of extreme self-satisfaction on his face.
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Satisfied with labouring faithfully in his vocation, the good man committed his cause to God, and found, in the refreshing recollections of self-satisfaction, and in the calm repose that followed a harassing day, spent in the performance of his manifold duties, a reward which might be termed a foretaste of heaven.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
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It is good to share with somebody, but the problem is that this desire often comes from self-satisfaction and ego-centered attachment which would never fill our heart.
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My thesaurus gives the following synonyms: self-satisfaction, conceit, egotism, self-importance, haughtiness, vanity, hubris, arrogance.
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So it's been with some self-satisfaction that I have been reading the stats this past two weeks.
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The Academy Awards ceremony this year was a largely boring and torpid affair, dominated by the deeply misguided self-satisfaction of nearly all involved.
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Well, errm, not precisely, but we need to stand up to it and create a multipolar world, not to be confused with multilateralism, which is a way of using up large amounts of money to bleat with great self-satisfaction, achieving little.
There is never any point to appeasement
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When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life
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It was led by Captain Pugwash with a large barrel of brandy and a look of extreme self-satisfaction on his face.
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What it's like: self-satisfaction made into music - a trip-hop-tinged reinvention that could soundtrack an advert for a horrible men's fragrance.
Times, Sunday Times
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You are all permitted a moment of pride and self-satisfaction.
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[1] By "self-satisfaction" I mean satisfaction with the existing system _as a system_.
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
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Such self-satisfaction and optimism have nowhere been more on display than in the financial media.
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But it was said of Mary, and she smiled in quiet self-satisfaction if she heard it said.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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Self-interest and self-satisfaction are replaced with self-reflection and significant improvement.
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There was a hint of smug self-satisfaction in her voice.
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Self-esteem depends very much on self-satisfaction in regards to achievements and self-development.
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It was not intended as a path to complacency or self-satisfaction, but to questions and action.
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Appalled by smugness and self-satisfaction, he simply could not bear to see an Irish institution go unchallenged.
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You know, the all too familiar signs of smugness, ingratiating habits, or simply the false earnestness and self-satisfaction associated with a testosterone-powered toady.
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Ferguson showed the spring-loaded steel measuring tape in his hand and tried hard not to smile in smug self-satisfaction.
SAN ANDREAS
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His combination of brains and bravery—even in the face of his grave miscalculation regarding Dean—when viewed against the smug, shallow self-satisfaction of the media bigfeet who mock him, redounds enormously to Gore's benefit.
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There was a note of self-satisfaction in his speech.