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complacent
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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)
  • She said this with a sigh of complacency.  (source)
    complacency = unworried satisfaction
  • A degree of complacency has set in.  (source)
    complacency = contentment or satisfaction
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  • Pretend to grant the Alyssians statehood, lull them into complacency.  (source)
    complacency = a false sense of security
  • "Don't let that make you complacent, though," he warned me.  (source)
    complacent = contented (often to a fault)
  • Mr. Ewell wrote on the back of the envelope and looked up complacently to see Judge Taylor staring at him as if he were some fragrant gardenia in full bloom on the witness stand,  (source)
    complacently = without concern
  • "Sure," said Pete, with proper complacence.  (source)
    complacence = lack of concern
  • 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)
  • It is essential, then, to keep one's attention focused on the present; to guard against any complacency creeping in on account of what one may have achieved in the past.  (source)
    complacency = satisfaction (often unconcerned to a fault)
  • Umbridge gave her wide, complacent smile and settled herself into a chintz-covered armchair, blinking up at her captives like a toad in a flowerbed.  (source)
    complacent = contented (unworried and happy)
  • The malakhim sat on either side of him, their hands clasped complacently on their black robes.  (source)
    complacently = with contentment (unworried and satisfied)
  • Their last agitation was removed by the complacence of Mr. Tozer.  (source)
    complacence = without concern -- probably to a fault
  • Complacency is over.  (source)
    Complacency = contentment (without concern -- often to a fault)
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