self-pleased

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-pleased
Adjective
  • Ava Daniels is a young comedy writer who is unable to find work due to an insensitive tweet and her reputation for being self-centered and arrogant.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • And the villains, of course, exuding every nastily relatable emotion; the stepmothers and sorceresses are vain, arrogant, dismissive, lonely, rude, and outrageous.
    Darren Franich, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In the 1998 episode, Theroux, 53, appears briefly as an egotistical writer who flirts with Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw at a party.
    John Russell, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Yes: Crumb’s work is egotistical, misogynist, racist—or, more generously, a feculent parody.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As transformation efforts start producing results, people can easily become complacent again, Oka notes.
    David Michels, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Though Barrera has written most of Grupo Frontera’s songs so far, along with other writers like Ríos, the band feared becoming complacent by always yielding those creative duties to someone else.
    Paula Mejía, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Ava Daniels is a young comedy writer who is unable to find work due to an insensitive tweet and her reputation for being self-centered and arrogant.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Real celebrities guest-starred in often awkward encounters with the always vain and self-centered Miss Piggy.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This Milan Design Week was an important one for Louis Vuitton.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2025
  • That’s important to bring out the best in the people around you.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 10 Apr. 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 22 Apr. 2025.

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