self-pleased

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-pleased
Adjective
  • The actor has one daughter with ex-wife Melanie Griffith and has been dating his girlfriend Nicole Kimpel since 2014. 05 of 09 John Lithgow as Lord Farquaad The actor behind the arrogant Lord Farquaad boasts an impressive career that began decades before Shrek came out in 2001.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Many members of its board appeared arrogant in the face of questions from the prosecutor or one of the lawyers.
    Laia Cervelló Herrero, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s no egotistical rock star bullsh**t going on here.
    Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • This was my chance to not be an actor, not have that stink of being an actor, that egotistical, show-off, controlling, making choices, being clever part of being an actor.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • From quantum security threats to the upending of existing business models, the scale of change will be vast and, for those who are complacent, potentially catastrophic.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Over Super Bowl weekend, fans worried that Kelce was being complacent and breaking his own rule about not going out and socializing in the week before the big game, the Daily Mail reported.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s plenty such wordplay in The Safe House, to the point that the movie can seem like a caricature of overeducated, perpetually growling Parisians shouting for social change, but too self-centered and comfortable in their bourgeois lifestyles to do anything drastic about it.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Sitting on the sidelines and labeling someone else as self-centered is easy.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But this year the 54-year-old stepped into what’s arguably the most challenging, complex, and coveted role in American musical theater, Mama Rose, in the equally as important midcentury Broadway musical Gypsy.
    The Glamour editors, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2025
  • This historical pattern prompts an important question: could Deere’s current $500 share price potentially fall below $350 if similar market conditions recur?
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • As Peggy Dodd, consigliere to her bumptious 1950s cult-leader husband, Adams tends to wear a soft smile and blouses buttoned to the neck — a picture-perfect model of mid-century femininity.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
  • It’s all spanked along by one of those golly-gee bumptious holiday musical scores.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Daemon, Viserys’s vainglorious younger brother, had married his niece in part as a way to strengthen his own bid for the throne, and Alicent had pushed for the ascension of her immature firstborn, Aegon.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Debuting March 3, the six-part realpolitik satire, created and executive produced by Succession alum Will Tracy, sees Oscar and Emmy winner Winslet return to HBO in an often hilarious role as the vainglorious Elena.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 June 2024
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“Self-pleased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-pleased. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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