All 8 Uses of
complacent
in
Little Dorrit
- 'Settle it strictly on herself,' the professional gentleman would complacently answer.†
Chpt 1.7
- 'Who is the young fellow?' asked Mr Meagles with peculiar complacency.†
Chpt 1.17
- The statue bride, hardly pausing for breath, went on, with the greatest complacency, in a rambling manner sometimes incidental to flesh and blood.†
Chpt 1.24
- 'If Maggy will spread that newspaper on the window-sill, my dear,' remarked the Father complacently and in a half whisper to Little Dorrit, 'my old pensioner can have his tea there, while we are having ours.'†
Chpt 1.31
- And Mrs Gowan, who of course saw through her own threadbare blind perfectly, and who knew that Mrs Merdle saw through it perfectly, and who knew that Society would see through it perfectly, came out of this form, notwithstanding, as she had gone into it, with immense complacency and gravity.†
Chpt 1.33
- Then Lord Decimus, who was a wonder on his own Parliamentary pedestal, turned out to be the windiest creature here: proposing happiness to the bride and bridegroom in a series of platitudes that would have made the hair of any sincere disciple and believer stand on end; and trotting, with the complacency of an idiotic elephant, among howling labyrinths of sentences which he seemed to take for high roads, and never so much as wanted to get out of.†
Chpt 1.34
- observed Miss Fanny, glancing complacently at herself
Chpt 2.6 *complacently = in a satisfied manner
- But he still protected his brother according to his long usage; and would say with some complacency, fifty times a day, when he saw him standing by his bed, 'My good Frederick, sit down.†
Chpt 2.19
Definition:
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(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault