Sample Sentences for
complacent
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  • The medicine has made you complacent, and you forgot to change the Band-Aid this morning.  (source)
    complacent = unworried and satisfied (often to a fault)
  • She was extravagant with her pity, and complacent in her snug world.  (source)
    complacent = unworried and satisfied
  • When she smokes, Masooma's face slackens. Her lids droop. Her head tilts unsteadily to the side and her voice takes on a sluggish, distant quality. A whisper of a smile forms on the corners of her mouth, whimsical, indolent, complacent rather than content.  (source)
    complacent = contented to a fault
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  • "I told them you'd take it like this," said Hermione with a hint of complacency.  (source)
    complacency = smug satisfaction
  • She was quite sure (or only hopeful) that she wasn't that weak, not that liable to fall docilely into the complacent expectations of parents, friends, and even herself.  (source)
    complacent = contented (unworried and satisfied)
  • Lennie, who had been following the conversation back and forth with his eyes, smiled complacently at the compliment.  (source)
    complacently = with satisfaction
  • "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)
  • ...and above all we should guard against complacency,  (source)
    complacency = being too contented (too unworried and satisfied)
  • I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name.  (source)
    complacent = contented (unworried and happy) -- often to a fault
  • From that day she was a model of obedience, and the old lady complacently admired the success of her training.  (source)
    complacently = with contentment  (satisfied and unworried)
  • Their last agitation was removed by the complacence of Mr. Tozer.  (source)
    complacence = without concern -- probably to a fault
  • A degree of complacency has set in.  (source)
    complacency = contentment or satisfaction
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