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- Yet his eventual importance to mankind was perhaps lessened by his large and complacent ignorance of all architecture save the types of houses turned out by speculative builders; all landscape gardening save the use of curving roads, grass, and six ordinary shrubs; and all the commonest axioms of economics.†
Chpt 4complacent = unworried and satisfied
- In contrast to the complacent Myra he saw her as swift and air-borne and radiant, a fire-spirit tenderly stooping to the hearth
Chpt 30 *complacent = contented (satisfied and unworried)
Definitions:
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(1)
(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)