self-satisfied

English

self-satisfied (comparative more self-satisfied, superlative most self-satisfied)

Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.
He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  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.

satisfied with oneself

Bulgarian: самодоволен (bg) (samodovolen)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自滿／自满 (zh) (zìmǎn), 得意 (zh) (déyì)
Danish: selvtilfreds
Dutch: zelfingenomen (nl)
Finnish: itsetyytyväinen (fi), omahyväinen (fi)
French: suffisant (fr)
Georgian: თვითკმაყოფილი (tvitḳmaq̇opili)
German: selbstzufrieden
Greek: εφησυχασμένος (el) (efisychasménos)
Hungarian: önelégült (hu)
Japanese: 独り善がり (ja) (ひとりよがり, hitoriyogari), 自己満足する (ja) (じこまんぞくする, jikomanzoku suru)
Polish: zadowolony z siebie
Russian: самодово́льный (ru) (samodovólʹnyj)
Swedish: självbelåten (sv) c

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