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Meanings of self-complacent in English
Contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions.
Synonyms
Examples for "complacent"
Examples for "complacent"
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The market in short is complacent, with a good bit of cynicism.
2
That's a good sign but we're certainly not going to be complacent.
3
The government is worried New Zealanders are becoming complacent about the virus.
4
Police Assistant Commissioner Richard Chambers says it's important people don't get complacent.
5
Unfortunately, it is easy to become complacent by measuring the wrong things.
1
He left to catch the train to Carpledon in a self-satisfied mind.
2
He arrived at Maisons in the most cheerful, self-satisfied frame of mind.
3
Solonet remained therefore in a self-satisfied condition of hope and becoming respect.
4
And he smiled in a sly self-satisfied way at his pious pun.
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Sacha Baron Cohen's latest send-up is funny if a bit too self-satisfied.
Usage of self-complacent in English
1
In practice doubtless I should be as self-complacent as any other man.
2
His self-complacent reflections were cut short by the entrance of his daughter.
3
It was self-complacent, yet there was small apparent ground for such complacence.
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The effect of this was to make me anything but self-complacent.
5
I recognised him at once by his corpulency and self-complacent air.
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I recognized him at once by his corpulency and self-complacent air.
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His expression was keen and experienced yet too self-complacent to be highly intelligent.
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That self-complacent gentleman had not expected this visit, although he had suggested it.
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The swamp pheasant also utters a contented, self-complacent chuckle, that resembles the Goo!
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The self-complacent ignorance with which this remark was made was ludicrous in the extreme.
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It lacks the self-complacent unreasonableness of Board of Works classicism.
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But, beside this, there is no true and substantial happiness but for the self-complacent.
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A more self-complacent person did not exist in Oakville.
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All his self-complacent smiles were gone in an instant.
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The behaviour of Thornby was not quite so self-complacent.
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It looks so self-complacent, as if it knew its own beauty-thecurves are too immovable.