self-content

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-content
Noun
  • In advance of the ceremony, the finalists were asked an essential question: Orwell claimed that prose writers have four ‘great motivations’ (putting aside the need to earn a living): sheer egoism; aesthetic enthusiasm; historical impulse; and political purpose.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
  • Trump’s slogans—America First and Make America Great Again—embody the essence of populism, namely using ideology to advance a political program that is morally unconstrained and driven by collective egoism.
    BÁLINT MADLOVICS, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The reasons include a stale concept, slow innovation, and operational complacency.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • If curiosity is a significant part of our DNA, another part is the fear of complacency, a fear of fear, of getting stuck.
    William Earl, Variety, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Most of the film plays out in something close to real time, and the directors, loath to hurry scenes along, slow the action down with a technical virtuosity that sometimes tilts into self-admiration.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
  • At first, Oliver meekly and gratefully laps up, metaphorically, the warm milk of affection that the family bestows on him between their rounds of backbiting and oblivious self-admiration.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • The main bedroom included a four-poster mahogany bed, a fireplace, a love seat, and a small table, while the bathroom offered dual vanities, ample closet space, and a deep soaking tub.
    Carole Dixon, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2025
  • Fire vanity projects and double down on core values.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • After his death the day after Easter at age 88, Francis was hailed for pushing Catholics and others to forsake egotism and materialism in favor of a kinder, more tolerant world focused above all on the marginalized.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
  • On October 15, 1924, André Breton published a manifesto that was as notable for its belligerence as its egotism.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The prevailing view is that the Club World Cup is FIFA being FIFA: a mass of hubris which could easily be mistaken for a money-making exercise.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Youssef makes Jeff bro-ish enough to hang with this crowd but outsider enough to chafe at its hubris.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • On Saturday, on the streets of Washington, Donald Trump will throw himself a costly and ostentatious military parade, a gaudy display of waste and vainglory staged solely to inflate the president’s dirigible-sized ego.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
  • The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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“Self-content.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-content. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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