All 4 Uses
complacent
in
Gone with the Wind
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- The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid, complacent.†
Chpt 1.1complacent = unworried and satisfied
- Mostly it had been compounded out of vanity and complacent confidence in her own charms.†
Chpt 1.6
- I'm believing there's Irish in them," said Gerald complacently.†
Chpt 2.10complacently = with satisfaction or contentment (unworried and satisfied)
- Scarlett seemed demure and sweet enough these days, but there was a pleased complacency in her eyes which annoyed people...
Chpt 4.36 *complacency = excess of self-satisfaction
Definitions:
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(1)
(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)