| 单词 | self-complacently |
| 释义 | > as lemmasself-comˈplacently self-comˈplacently adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [adverb] self-complacently1772 complacently1815 self-contentedly1840 self-satisfiedly1842 comfortably1872 smugly1892 the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > complacency > [adverb] self-complacently1772 complacently1815 self-contentedly1840 1772 Morning Chron. 23 July An anonymous scribbler..concluding self-complacently after all that he ‘is not conscious of having written any thing on the occasion, that should make me ashamed of the name of’—whom? 1805 J. Foster Essays I. i. iii. 45 As polemics most self-complacently avow their opinions to be more firmly established by all that the opponent has objected. 1920 Yale Rev. 9 380 New York City is self-complacently confident that the Hudson River is the western boundary of as much of the United States as matters. 2005 Furrow 56 635 Falsely constructed antitheses which self-complacently consign others to margins of ‘left’ or ‘right’. < as lemmas |
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