complacent

Speech parts

1. complacent - Adjective

2. complacent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.

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Examples

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. Gerald Ford

The more I learnt about this cheeky – almost rebellious – company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money. Jonathan Ive

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. Georg Solti

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent. Tucker Carlson

The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. David Foster Wallace

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. Charles Krauthammer

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