Meanings of much complacency in English

The neighbouring gentlefolks did not look on these proceedings with much complacency.

We look back upon the men of the thirteenth century with much complacency.

The captain pointed out, with much complacency, the different articles of their outfit.

He accepted their services with much complacency, and enjoyed his important and interesting position.

There has been too much complacency in the government.

That habit I accepted at his house with as much complacency as I could command.

Regarding it with much complacency he said, slowly:-

She made the statement with so much complacency that I was more than irritated; I was vexed.

Lacking the gift of divination, Thelismer Thornton watched the rapid development of this bottle imp with much complacency.

Mr. Perkins smiled with much complacency.

This lady exhibits her jewels with much complacency, and Trimalchio's wife Fortunata, roused to competition, does the same.

The contemporary chroniclers dwell with much complacency on these evidences of the stateliness and splendor of the Castilian court.

When they passed him he turned to the crowd, and with much complacency said: "Them's the fellows."

On the greatest and most useful of all human inventions, the invention of alphabetical writing, Plato did not look with much complacency.

Enthroned amongst the chaperons, and keeping a watchful eye upon her flock, Lady Mary so far views their proceedings with much complacency.

Later in life he indulged himself in an apparently inexhaustible succession of handsome embroidered waistcoats, which he used to regard with much complacency.