What does self-congratulatory mean?

self-congratulatory

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English

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"Annabelle came skipping out of the house with an air of self-congratulatory joy that was instantly annoying."
"It sure does feel like a lot of people engaging in this tinhattery and self-congratulatory ‘well, I never lived Diddy’ crap care less about the victims than they do their own egos."

more self-congratulatory (comparative) most self-congratulatory (superlative)

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