self-congratulatory

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Recent Examples of self-congratulatory The collection documents both sides of the slavery debate, pro and con—a useful correction to the self-congratulatory view of British history that celebrates abolition and turns a blind eye to everyone who defended slavery. Literary Hub, 29 July 2025 There’s a sameness there that the series’s compressed adaptation of its source material only exacerbates, and that makes Dream’s one-note development feel thin and self-congratulatory. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2025 Anne Meara was the talk of the town in the role of a bag lady who spurned the self-congratulatory charity of guilty swells. Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025 Further, self-congratulatory crowing aside, the truth is that most low-income seniors already do not pay taxes on their Social Security benefits. Amber Gray-Fenner, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-congratulatory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-congratulatory
Adjective
  • When the story begins in 1580, Will and Agnes are both arrestingly self-assured.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Protecting their peace and remaining self-assured has become a priority.
    Essence, Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • And it could be accelerated by the continued rise of angry, resentful, self-glorifying nationalism in many countries.
    Michael J. Mazarr, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2022
Adjective
  • That’s more than a factor of three in improvement of the signal strength over just 10 years, which enables a much more confident and robust extraction of the key parameters and properties associated with this merger.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But Canalys isn’t confident about the demand materializing at retail stores and websites.
    Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • These co-workers are not heroes for coming in to work with their germs, but selfish and inconsiderate.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Having to carry the weight of someone else’s selfish needs makes everything harder.
    Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Against all odds, two narcissistic, self-promoting people can talk to each other and really can get curious and vulnerable and connect.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Needless to say, all these vain, privileged, self-promoting jerks are soon going to make CW’s acquaintance, then regret it — even as vengeful Madison zeroes in on that lady’s whereabouts.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Harvard found in an experiment with nearly 300 executives, that those who relied on ChatGPT for stock price forecasts grew more optimistic and overconfident — and ultimately made worse predictions than peers who worked with other humans to discuss the logic.
    Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • There are the clever visual gags allowed by animation, like characters who quite literally shoot daggers at one another while locked in a glaring match; there are many jokes at the imperious, overconfident Marioneta’s expense.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Client Video Testimonials Testimonials are a powerful way to promote yourself without seeming self-centered.
    William Arruda, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Investing time and effort into connecting with your inner sea might seem self-centered.
    Jessica DuLong, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Their pretentious vocabulary is what’s keeping progressives from connecting with everyday Americans, according to a memo prepared by a left-leaning think tank and aimed at helping Democrats regain their common touch.
    Nolan Finley, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For him, the only way to tell those stories without being pretentious is to wrap them in insanity.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Self-congratulatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-congratulatory. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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