self-satisfying
English edit
Etymology edit
self- + satisfying
Adjective edit
self-satisfying (comparative more self-satisfying, superlative most self-satisfying)
- Giving satisfaction to oneself.
- 1959 November, “Talking of Trains: The anti-railway prejudice”, in Trains Illustrated, page 518:
- When one has an intimate knowledge of a business it is easy—and to some extent self-satisfying—to find fault with the way it is run by those in charge.
References edit
- Ogilvie, John. The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, and Technological. Blackie & Son. (1884).