triumphalismnoun [ U ]
uk/traɪˈʌm.fəl.ɪ.zəm/us/traɪˈʌm.fəl.ɪ.zəm/disapprovingan unpleasant show of pleasure and satisfaction because you have won or done better than someone:
There wasn't a hint of triumphalism in her acceptance speech at the awards ceremony.
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Satisfied and complacent
- at one with the world idiom
- be on to a good thing idiom
- complacency
- complacent
- content
- life
- nicely
- pride
- rest
- rest on your laurels idiom
- run
- sate
- sated
- satisfied
- self-fulfilment
- self-satisfied
- smug
- smugly
- thing
- world
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Winning and defeating
triumphalist
adjective, noun [ C ] uk/traɪˈʌm.fəl.ɪst/us/traɪˈʌm.fəl.ɪst/
a triumphalist victory parade