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- adjective Being in the nature of
self-congratulation
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Its -- he repeated stubbornly to himself -- long history as a refuge, a role it maintained in spite of the recalcitrant ingratitude of the refugees 'children; and without any of the selfcongratulatory huddled-masses rhetoric of the "nation of immigrants" across the ocean, itself far from perfectly open -- armed.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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