Sample Sentences forcomplacent (editor-reviewed)
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She had become complacent after years of success.complacent = unworried and satisfied
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This team could win State if they stay hungry instead of getting too complacent.
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There will come a time when everyone must account for their actions during this war. Some will be judged as evil, others as complacent. But I suspect the greatest number of us will fall to our knees and weep when we discover the full extent of the crimes being committed here. (source)complacent = passively accepting of wrong
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The medicine has made you complacent, and you forgot to change the Band-Aid this morning. (source)complacent = unworried and satisfied (often to a fault)
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She was extravagant with her pity, and complacent in her snug world. (source)complacent = unworried and satisfied
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I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the "do nothingism" of the complacent nor the hatred and despair of the black nationalist. (source)complacent = contented (satisfied and unconcerned)
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A degree of complacency has set in. (source)complacency = contentment or satisfaction
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When she smokes, Masooma's face slackens. Her lids droop. Her head tilts unsteadily to the side and her voice takes on a sluggish, distant quality. A whisper of a smile forms on the corners of her mouth, whimsical, indolent, complacent rather than content. (source)complacent = contented to a fault
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Lennie, who had been following the conversation back and forth with his eyes, smiled complacently at the compliment. (source)complacently = with satisfaction
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"Sure," said Pete, with proper complacence. (source)complacence = lack of concern
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Consider, too, that all the pleasant little dim ideas and complacencies—of standing well with Timpson, of dispensing advice when he was asked for it, of impressing his friend Tulliver with additional respect, of saying something, and saying it emphatically, with other inappreciably minute ingredients that went along with the warm hearth and the brandy-and-water to make up Mr. Riley's consciousness on this occasion—would have been a mere blank.† (source)
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Scarlett seemed demure and sweet enough these days, but there was a pleased complacency in her eyes which annoyed people... (source)complacency = excess of self-satisfaction
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Almondine lay on the floor, hips tilted, peering up at Claude, relaxed and complacent, her mouth hanging open in a quiet pant. (source)complacent = contented (unworried and satisfied)
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From that day she was a model of obedience, and the old lady complacently admired the success of her training. (source)complacently = with contentment (satisfied and unworried)
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Their last agitation was removed by the complacence of Mr. Tozer. (source)complacence = without concern -- probably to a fault
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Jane met her with a smile of such sweet complacency, a glow of such happy expression, as sufficiently marked how well she was satisfied with the occurrences of the evening. (source)complacency = contentment (happiness)
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