Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving satisfaction to one's self.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Giving satisfaction to one's self.
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Examples
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We should be attacking him and his theories relentlessly, until he is exposed as the self-centered political snob that he is, and then cast him down as a beaten and broken shell of a man for trying to pawn his self-satisfying lies off on us.
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He blows in the wind in any direction that will inflate his enormous self-satisfying EGO ..
Lieberman: I'll back health care bill without Medicare expansion 2009
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Or, at a meta-level, to find some kind of universal self-satisfying explanation about how all humans are inherently vicious and will never get along unless they admit they are sinful and surrender to God?
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Then cross items off one by one in a grand, self-satisfying motion.
Archive 2008-07-01 Zenmomma 2008
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Then cross items off one by one in a grand, self-satisfying motion.
The secret to a successful to-do list Zenmomma 2008
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So inevitably the huge masses of laobaixing -- the average Chinese -- have to be all frantically searching for their own measurable, self-satisfying indicator of personal power.
Pepe Escobar: Shanghai and the Mystery of China's Soft Power 2010
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So inevitably the huge masses of laobaixing -- the average Chinese -- have to be all frantically searching for their own measurable, self-satisfying indicator of personal power.
Pepe Escobar: Shanghai and the Mystery of China's Soft Power 2010
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And, of course, it worships itself, with flashy correspondence dinners, magazine parties, self-satisfying award ceremonies, and giddy self-promotion.
LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010
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There is a mirror image of this view among right-wing ideologues, who have their own airtight, smug, and self-satisfying view of the world.
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The long spiked tongue snaked out from a self-satisfying and terrible grin.
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