All 3 Uses of
complacent
in
Great Expectations
- Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express.†
Chpt 25
- ...looked up at us complacently, and said,
Chpt 31 *complacently = with contentment (unworried and satisfied)
- Once more, he took me by both hands and surveyed me with an air of admiring proprietorship: smoking with great complacency all the while.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault