self-pleased

adjective

Definition of self-pleasednext
as in arrogant

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-pleased
  1. arrogant
  2. complacent
  3. important
  4. conceited
  5. bumptious
  6. vainglorious
  7. smug
  8. high-and-mighty
Adjective
  • Using an acronym meant for minor zoning squabbles against resistance to a massive, 80 mph express train slicing through dense residential blocks is an arrogant posture that completely obscures the true nature of this unconscionable project.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Steve Buscemi as Harry’s regular fence; Tatiana Maslany as his estranged daughter; and Will Price as the arrogant, heat-packing scion of a Manhattan crime family also star.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of arrogant
Adjective
  • According to a PowerPoint presentation reviewed by Semafor, Gelsinger said the industry has grown too complacent and is failing to innovate on new technologies that could create exponential performance gains.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Generative AI tools tend to be complacent, validating user premises without questioning the underlying logic.
    — Marco Stefanini, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of complacent
Adjective
  • In a world in which answers are increasingly easy to generate, the more important skill is knowing what to ask.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The radar systems are expected to provide an important detection and tracking layer within the broader US counter-UAS architecture.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of important
Adjective
  • Played by Jesse Eisenberg, Zuckerberg is dramatized as a conceited, socially awkward college student who repeatedly burns allies in pursuit of power.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Johnson reprises his role as Moana's bantering reluctant partner, the shapeshifting trickster demigod Maui, alongside Jemaine Clement again voicing the conceited giant crustacean Tamatoa.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
Definition of conceited
Adjective
  • In public, Newsom speaks often and openly about his errors, fortifying his image as a bumptious, slightly hapless victim of his own enthusiasms.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The Star of India’s intensely curlicued provenance and bumptious post-sale 20th-century history is a Baedeker for all who might aspire to purchase the Pure Land, should it ever be formally or publicly offered for sale.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Definition of bumptious
Adjective
  • Claire’s elective death therefore remains a problematic choice for some viewers, an act of vainglorious selfishness from a woman who was never terribly nice to begin with.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
  • Melodramatic and vainglorious, moody and capricious, a fidgety, neurotic hypochondriac, Stalin was a bundle of appalling contradictions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026
Definition of vainglorious
Adjective
  • The typically smug host appeared upset earlier this year at the Golden Globes when presenter Wanda Sykes roasted him and another nominee up for best performance in stand-up comedy on television, Ricky Gervais.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Here was my chance to get out of London, this counterfeit of death with its everywhere rage and its moribund culture and its smug population and its streets steeped in resentment and the sky pressing down like a chloroform rag.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of smug
Adjective
  • That sweet spot between professionalism, entertainment and high-and-mighty disapproval?
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Lots of high-and-mighty people populate Tyrrell’s recollections.
    — John Fund, National Review, 26 Nov. 2023
Definition of high-and-mighty
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