self-contentment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-contentment
Noun
  • Corporate leaders will be called upon to overcome self-satisfaction with progress made in the advancement of gender parity for women, especially those in senior and middle management.
    Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Trump’s slogans—America First and Make America Great Again—embody the essence of populism, namely using ideology to advance a political program that is morally unconstrained and driven by collective egoism.
    BÁLINT MADLOVICS, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Trump's goal may not be to actually take over Gaza, but to shake the world out of its complacency.
    Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • In the book his sense of complacency as a middle-class Jewish American is shattered by the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 and the resurgence of the far right.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The vanity table looks completely different now, as it has been restored and repainted to a mahogany color and given all-new brass finishes.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Not only is her pick from the beloved legacy brand a staple in vanities everywhere, but the shade itself has its share of avid fans.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • At the same time, the song channeled the slightly uncomfortable fusion of selflessness and self-glorification that pop and rock ‘n’ roll stars inevitably projected during the charity-rock-event ’80s.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Writing about other peoples has long been in service of self-glorification.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • The 1960s-era egotism in that earlier vision was tempered.
    Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Gratitude is the opposite of selfishness, egotism, avarice or narcissism.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The inauguration of Donald Trump evidenced hubris in dealing with his American adversaries that is less convincing when turned on his foreign enemies.
    Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Saturday Night, one of the livelier films from 2024, offers a glimpse at TV hubris and yet the secrets of show business (nepotism, cronyism) remain hidden.
    Armond White, National Review, 1 Jan. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Thesaurus Entries Near self-contentment

Cite this Entry

“Self-contentment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-contentment. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!