self-satisfied• In contrast the style of shareholdingencouraged by privatisation is secure, self-satisfied.• He was in his early 40s and had the self-satisfied air of someone who has achieved fame and success.• We shouldn't, however, go home fulfilled, self-satisfied and smug.• Sonnenberg strolled in, his chin held up at a self-satisfiedangle.• They seemed to have a significanceindependent of the self-satisfiedbarristers and scurryingclerks who peopled them now.• At last the self-satisfiedcrowceased his terrible performance and took his bow.• Casting a self-satisfiedglance at me Shelly allowed herself to be picked up.• Shiona scowled into his face with its arrogant high cheekbones, self-satisfied mouth and eyes as hard as sapphires.• Doyle's self-satisfied smile irritated Haworth.• What makes a second-rateactress like Jean so self-satisfied, so over-confident?• As I watched in amazement, the partnergazed over her shoulder and gave me a big, mocking, self-satisfiedwink.