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complacent
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A Sketch of the Past
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- By some odd fling in her birth, she had escaped all taint of Duckworth philistinism; she had none of their shrewd middle-class complacency.†
*complacency = contentment (often unworried to a fault)
- The front, facing the street, was comparatively light; the Watts portrait of father faced the door, a flattered, an idealised picture, up to which father would lead admiring ladies; and pause and contemplate it, with some complacency.†
- Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine.†
complacent = unworried and satisfied
Definitions:
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(1)
(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)