self-pleased

Coyote, self-pleased smile painted across his furry face, the minute he eclipses Road Runner: dumb as a dart, he hits a pole.

sur-le-champ - French Word-A-Day 2007

Coyote, self-pleased smile painted across his furry face, the minute he eclipses Road Runner: dumb as a dart, he hits a pole.

French Word-A-Day: 2007

Just from the way he says, "and I'm Ed Glaeser," you can tell this is a pretty darned self-pleased group.

Which One is the Parody? 2006

Just from the way he says, "and I'm Ed Glaeser," you can tell this is a pretty darned self-pleased group.

Archive 2006-12-01 2006

He is singing brand names with the self-pleased fluidity of the recently enlightened: “Cragganmore, Auchentoshan, Laphroaig, Lagavulin.”

Disquiet » Black Label 1997

Mrs. Jesser's face took on the self-pleased look of one who has important inside knowledge to impart.

What The Left Hand Was Doing Randall Garrett 1957

Some burnt out; some died out; some dried up; but he remains the same cosey, chirping, fine-natured, and self-pleased singer, who won the love of Shelley and Keats, and roused the wrath of Gifford and

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

Maud told story after story of how she had played this man and that for a sucker -- was as full of such tales and as joyous and self-pleased over them as an honest salesman telling his delighted, respectable, pew-holding employer how he has "stuck" this customer and that for a "fancy" price.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II 1915

The self-pleased, keen-sighted Legate might after all have applauded a moral heroism or a high-hearted gallantry which would ill accord with his own ingenious and versatile spirit.

Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

Maud told story after story of how she had played this man and that for a sucker -- was as full of such tales and as joyous and self-pleased over them as an honest salesman telling his delighted, respectable, pew-holding employer how he has "stuck" this customer and that for a "fancy" price.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889