Translation for "self-congratulatory" to spanish
Self-congratulatory
Translation examples
I’m so jealous.” “And you?” the waitress asked through the self-congratulatory giggles.
Te envidio tanto. —¿Y tú? —preguntó la camarera entre las risitas autocomplacientes.
Their relation to the ancient lineage was never simple, never cozy, never self-congratulatory.
Su relación con el antiguo linaje nunca fue simple, ni entrañable, ni autocomplaciente.
After it was over Stan lay in her sweet-smelling bed in a self-congratulatory mood.
Después, Stan se sentó en la cama de olor dulce de Carrie, en un estado de ánimo autocomplaciente.
He smiled, without cracking the glaze of his studied, self-congratulatory diffidence. “How curious,”
Él sonrió, sin variar un ápice su estudiado retraimiento autocomplaciente. —Qué curioso —dijo.
“That’s right, he speaks Russian,” Vincie said, a self-congratulatory smile on her cracked lips.
—Fíjate, y habla ruso —dijo Vincie trazando una sonrisa autocomplaciente con sus labios resecos.
As he drank more of the thick malt he favored, he grew loquacious, self-congratulatory, almost maudlin.
A medida que iba bebiendo más cantidad de la espesa malta que prefería, se volvía más locuaz, más autocomplaciente, casi sensiblero.
The irony is that the underbelly of white male power, of the clubby, self-congratulatory, back-pounding, pugilistic posing is extreme vulnerability.
La ironía es que el punto débil del poder masculino blanco, de la postura exclusiva, autocomplaciente, congratulatoria y pugilista, es la vulnerabilidad extrema.
During that long afternoon, I read The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, a grimly humorous book of self-congratulatory cynicism.
Durante esa larga tarde, leí El diccionario del diablo de Ambrose Bierce, un libro de humor negro y cinismo autocomplaciente.
Even though neo-cymeks had at last begun to sweep across the dead Synchronized Worlds, their glory had become a petty, self-congratulatory delusion.
Los neocimek habían empezado a extenderse por los Planetas Sincronizados aniquilados, sí, pero la gloria de esas conquistas no era más que una ilusión absurda y autocomplaciente.
Alone here! I thought. Alone here with a leather jacket, a silver lighter, a self-congratulatory grin, and something pressing zipped into his tight jeans.
Muy solo aquí, ¿con una chaqueta de piel, un mechero plateado, una sonrisa autocomplaciente y una turgencia bajo la cremallera de sus vaqueros ceñidos?
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