All 6 Uses of
complacent
in
Howards End
- CHAPTER III Most complacently did Mrs. Munt rehearse her mission.†
Part 3
- He walked on complacently as far as the Houses of Parliament.†
Part 6
- It is jealousy, not love, that connects us with the farmyard intolerably, and calls up visions of two angry cocks and a complacent hen.†
Part 16
- Margaret crushed complacency down because she was civilised.†
Part 16
- "But our civilisation is moulded by great impersonal forces" (his voice grew complacent; it always did when he eliminated the personal), "and there always will be rich and poor."
Part 22 *complacent = unconcerned (contented)
- He rose with a little extra touch of complacency, and held out his hand to help her up.†
Part 26
Definition:
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(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault