All 8 Uses of
complacent
in
Anna Karenina
- But the difference was that Oblonsky, as he was doing the same as every one did, laughed complacently and good-humoredly, while Levin laughed without complacency and sometimes angrily.†
Part 1
- But the difference was that Oblonsky, as he was doing the same as every one did, laughed complacently and good-humoredly, while Levin laughed without complacency and sometimes angrily.†
Part 1
- He recalled his own criticisms of Tyndall of his complacent satisfaction in the cleverness of his experiments, and for his lack of philosophic insight.
Part 1 *complacent = without concern -- often to a fault
- "Here, on the other hand, it has made a great sensation," he said, with a complacent smile.†
Part 1
- With the same complacent smile he told her of the ovations he had received in consequence of the act he had passed.†
Part 1
- No; can a man with those dull eyes, with that self-satisfied complacency, feel anything?†
Part 4
- …and disagreeable staircase, and the free and easy waiter in a filthy frock coat, and the common dining room with a dusty bouquet of wax flowers adorning the table, and filth, dust, and disorder everywhere, and at the same time the sort of modern up-to-date self-complacent railway uneasiness of this hotel, aroused a most painful feeling in Levin after their fresh young life, especially because the impression of falsity made by the hotel was so out of keeping with what awaited them.†
Part 5
- Even the rare moments of tenderness that came from time to time did not soothe her; in his tenderness now she saw a shade of complacency, of self-confidence, which had not been of old, and which exasperated her.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault