All 5 Uses of
complacent
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom.†
Chpt 2
- As he uttered the last word of his tirade, Miuesov completely recovered his self-complacency, and all traces of his former irritation disappeared.†
Chpt 2
- "Don't be anxious about my nature," Kolya interrupted, not without complacency.
Chpt 10 *complacency = a lack of concern -- often to a fault
- "In the ordinary occasions of life," he said in the same complacent and sententious tone in which he had taunted Grigory and argued with him about religion at Fyodor Pavlovitch's table, "in the ordinary occasions of life, blows on the face are forbidden nowadays by law, and people have given them up, but in exceptional occasions of life people still fly to blows, not only among us but all over the world, be it even the fullest Republic of France, just as in the time of Adam and Eve,…†
Chpt 11
- He knew the old man's habit of talking slowly and deliberately, regardless of the impression he was making and of the delay he was causing, and highly prizing his flat, dull and always gleefully complacent German wit.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault