All 13 Uses
complacent
in
Look Homeward, Angel
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- And that voice, flat, drawling, complacent, touched with sudden light a picture that had lain dead in him for twenty years.†
Chpt 1 *complacent = unworried and satisfied
- He was a stocky fleshy man in the middle fifties, with a ruddy face, a patriarchal beard, and the thick complacent features of his tribe.†
Chpt 1
- This quality, this almost Buddhistic complacency which, rooted in the fundamental structure of her life, she could neither suppress nor conceal, was the quality he could least understand, that infuriated him most.†
Chpt 1complacency = contentment (often unworried to a fault)
- The sight of him drew Gant instantly from his lethargy: he remembered the dissolved partnership; the familiar attitude of Will Pentland, as he stood before the fire, evoked all the markings he so heartily loathed in the clan—its pert complacency, its incessant punning, its success.†
Chpt 1
- And then, with a complacent and confidential smile which, Gant knew, always preceded some reference to her family, she said: "I tell you what: it may all come out in the Third Generation."†
Chpt 1complacent = unworried and satisfied
- There's no place like Henderson," said he, with complacent and annoying fidelity, referring to that haven of enervation, red clay, ignorance, slander, and superstition, in whose effluent rays he had been reared.†
Chpt 1
- Steve swaggered absurdly, smiled complacently, and hinted at great fortune about the town.†
Chpt 2complacently = with satisfaction or contentment (unworried and satisfied)
- "I thought that would bring you to," she said complacently.†
Chpt 2
- His complacent smile, hard-lipped, loosened into servility.†
Chpt 2complacent = unworried and satisfied
- She was a powerful old lady, six feet tall, with the big bones of a man, and a heavy full-jawed face, sensuous and complacent, and excellently equipped with a champing mill of strong yellow horse-teeth.†
Chpt 2
- And the smug smiling faces of his own classmen, the wiser Freshmen, complacently guiltless of his own mistakes, touched him at moments with insane fury.†
Chpt 3complacently = with satisfaction or contentment (unworried and satisfied)
- The fat little girl skipped back to her fat mother for approbation: they regarded each other with complacent smiles loosely netted in their full-meated mouths.†
Chpt 3complacent = unworried and satisfied
- There they were, each with the familiar marking of the clan—broad nose, full lips, deep flat cheeks, deliberate pursed mouths, flat drawling voices, flat complacent laughter.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)