self-complacence

You are not adjusting your life artistically; there is too much strain, too little warmth, too much self-complacence.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

I could not imagine what had given him this insolent self-complacence.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

If he could have looked into my mind, as I stood there in an attitude of patient attention, I think even his self-complacence would have been put out of countenance.

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Various

_ [ "I ask you a thousand pardons."] -- They are fully convinced that the English all eat with their knives, and I have often heard this discussed with much self-complacence by those who usually shared the labours of the repast between a fork and their fingers.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

A limpid brook ripples in beauty and bloom by the side of your muddy, stagnant self-complacence, and you discern no essential difference.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

_ [ "I ask you a thousand pardons."] -- They are fully convinced that the English all eat with their knives, and I have often heard this discussed with much self-complacence by those who usually shared the labours of the repast between a fork and their fingers.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

It was left for a fifteen-year-old girl, and an old darky, whom in his secret heart he regarded as no better than the dirt beneath his feet, to start volcanic eruptions destined to shake the very foundations of his self-complacence.

Peggy Stewart at School

"With charity for all and with malice toward none," we see no ground for self-complacence on the part of any branch of the Church, and no part of it which deserves sweeping condemnation from the rest.

With Our Soldiers in France Sherwood Eddy 1917

This worked without a hitch until the votresses began to tell each other what the great speaker had said, when it naturally followed that Mrs Dash, though she thought that Mrs Speaker had been discerning to discover this latent oratorical talent in herself, immediately had the effervescence taken out of her self-complacence on finding that that stupid Mrs Blank had been assured of equal ability.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

I could not imagine what had given him this insolent self-complacence.

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916