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Recent Examples of self-satisfaction Trump himself personifies stupidity’s essential feature — self-satisfaction, an inability to recognize the flaws in your thinking. David Brooks, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025 Just as there’s no dramatic build-up to Maria landing the part, there’s no romance to the process of acting it, nor the slightest whiff of self-satisfaction in recreating iconic scenes. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 21 Mar. 2025 Corporate leaders will be called upon to overcome self-satisfaction with progress made in the advancement of gender parity for women, especially those in senior and middle management. Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition. Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024 Nothing was off-limits in Mad, a newsstand stalwart that would reach peak annual sales in the 1970s of 2.5 million issues by delivering belly laughs and self-satisfaction to America’s class clowns through cartoons, parodies, sarcastic characters and an unending stream of gross-out gags. Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024 There was more than a whiff of self-satisfaction from the Kremlin on Wednesday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s trip to Mongolia at the start of the week went without a hitch — despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant hanging over the visit. Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024 The potential rewards for their work had always been self-satisfaction, a few tip-jar-sized donations, and maybe some nice emails. Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 17 May 2024 Bleakley said people can often use such cases for their own self-satisfaction, dehumanizing victims in the process. Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-satisfaction
Noun
  • The Eden's bathroom is placed on the opposite side of the home to the entrance and has a toilet, a vanity sink, and a walk-in shower, plus a little more storage space.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 June 2025
  • Lean a framed print against the wall in the center of a wide vanity or on a shelf above the toilet.
    Dina Cheney, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The recent taco taunting has been a blow to his fragile ego that couldn’t go unanswered.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2025
  • When egos are set aside, silos are broken, and people move as one — kids are found, hope is restored, and the system starts to change.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the Pride Month display at the Stonewall National Monument excluded transgender pride flags this year, according to ABC News.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
  • Tall soldiers, the pride of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century armies—and in the case of Frederick William I of Prussia’s Potsdam Giants, a virtual fetish—became a liability on nineteenth-century battlefields.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The lines between competitive stubbornness and plain old stubbornness, a healthy arrogance and prideful ignorance are pretty thin.
    Will Graves, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 June 2025
  • Individuals with big egos display excessive pride in their abilities and accomplishments, often leading to arrogance and overconfidence.
    AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025

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“Self-satisfaction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-satisfaction. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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