Sample sentences for COMPLACENT

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Definition

contented (unworried and satisfied) — often to a fault

complacent = unworried and satisfied

This team could win State if they stay hungry instead of getting too complacent.

complacent = unworried and satisfied

The great danger here is complacency.
Brink Lindsey -- War & the Battle of Ideas -- http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4570&print=Y (retrieved 06/28/06)
There is no doubt that the United States had become complacent about homeland security, but in fact this was precisely because so many commentators had cried "wolf" over the last decade that many policymakers had stopped listening.
Mackubin Thomas Owens -- Same Old Questions -- http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-owensprint092501.html (retrieved 06/29/06)
Their manner and attitudes were the last expression of complacent self-righteousness.
Twain, Mark -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Over and over during training, we were told never to be complacent,
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

complacent = unworried and satisfied

...and above all we should guard against complacency,
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

complacency = being too contented (too unworried and satisfied)

"I told them you'd take it like this," said Hermione with a hint of complacency.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

complacency = smug satisfaction

But he'd let himself become too complacent with what he'd been doing.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures

complacent = contented (unworried and satisfied)

"Don't let that make you complacent, though," he warned me.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight

complacent = contented (often to a fault)

That would have wiped that complacent smile off his face.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death

complacent = contented (unworried and satisfied)

A degree of complacency has set in.
Heather Morris -- The Tattooist of Auschwitz

complacency = contentment or satisfaction

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,
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

complacently = without concern

Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

complacency = satisfaction and lack of concern

I should not be too complacent because...
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men

complacent = contented (unworried and satisfied)

complacently = with contentment (unworried and satisfied)

She watched them [the goldfish] swimming dreamily, ignoring her in their useless complacency.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon

complacency = contentment (often unworried to a fault)

complacency = unworried to a fault

"The workers are starving in England," she declared complacently.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

complacently = without concern (contented)

Tiny smiled grimly and assured me that Lena would never be either shabby
or rich. "And I don't want to be," the other agreed complacently.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia

complacently = with contentment (unworried and satisfied)

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