self-congratulatory

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Recent Examples of self-congratulatory That attitude, self-aggrandizing and self-congratulatory but perhaps justifiably so, prevails throughout SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night. Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025 Politicians can always find a rationalization to spend taxpayer money on an unending list of needy programs coupled with a self-congratulatory press release. Len Fasano, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2025 In a night full of self-congratulation, Chu’s speech was maybe the most self-congratulatory, somehow trying to make the case that the film was saving the world and also about … radical optimism? Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025 Beyond the lifeboat of major film festivals, which still assist a handful of buzzy international and independent films in their treacherous journey to release, such entities as the self-congratulatory, navel-gazing Oscars have seemingly abandoned the inclusion of riskier, daring films. Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for self-congratulatory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-congratulatory
Adjective
  • My advice for this is to be humble without losing confidence, and self-assured without crossing into overconfidence.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Clearly, McRae has made the most of those rare windows of downtime: So Close to What, out today, is her most self-assured—and best—record yet.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The guard is one of the more clutch players in the league so if the game gets tight toward the end, Denver feels confident with Murray on the court.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The stealth nature and structure of the agreement in addition to the comments made by Caesars and Icahn strongly indicate that this is a very amicable arrangement, and that Icahn is confident in management’s ability.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • He isn’t allowed to become the play’s villain despite his selfish plan to sell the estate out from under his family.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Listen to this article For every selfish motorist who blocks a fire hydrant.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Balance enthusiasm with professionalism by showing energy without appearing desperate or overconfident.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • But human physicians can also be overconfident in their reasoning abilities, and may wrongly ignore correct diagnoses offered by patients, non-physician health workers or AI systems.
    Paul Hsieh, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • But those comments should have cast a much stronger warning against this very bad and self-centered idea.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Subtly reinforcing contributions through results and collaboration ensures recognition without sounding self-centered. - Sariki Abungwo, Blesatech Consultancy Services 10.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Accusing it of being pretentious, an ego trip, and lacking depth.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 10 Mar. 2025
  • His style and references can seem a little pretentious now.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Maybe some person will be presumptuous enough to wonder aloud what might have influenced the plot of this book.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Stone sails through all this, seeing off the sneering disapproval of white America and the presumptuous demands of the Black Panthers with equal disdain, and for a time his band, the aptly named Sly and the Family Stone, become a republic within the republic.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Laurie, now adopting her own holier-than-thou perch, is just as bad.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Phillip, Portland, Ore. A: Unlike baseball, with some of its holier-than-thou decisions with its Hall of Fame, the Basketball Hall of Fame largely looks at career on-court achievements.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2025

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“Self-congratulatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-congratulatory. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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