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Meanings of complacence in inglés

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autosatisfacció
español
complacencia

The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself.

complacencia
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Examples for "complacency"
Examples for "complacency"
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Investors learned the perils of complacency in Europe's fiscal crisis last year.
Reuters
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In the latter case however, the hepatitis C epidemic cautions against complacency.
Pubmed
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Pellegrini denied City have a problem with complacency against so-called lesser teams.
The Guardian
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The unsurprising result is investor complacency amid many signs of market excess.
Reuters
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Therefore, public reporting of individual surgeons' outcomes could lead to false complacency.
Pubmed
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The father had a Scotch look of shrewd narrowness, and entire self-complacency.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
2
The injury she could least forgive was a hurt to her self-complacency.
Hetty Gray / Nobody's Bairn
3
Never had she seen such intense self-complacency coupled with such utter mediocrity.
Baron Trigault's Vengeance
4
There was none of the fire-proof self-complacency-Self-sufficiency ,shehad, but not self-righteousness
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
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There were attempts to show that British self-complacency was not altogether justified.
Britain at Bay
1
And he looked round in self-satisfaction at the officer of the gendarmerie.
The Created Legend
2
The element of pathos in her self-satisfaction was too much for him.
Ladies Must Live
3
The two met on the doorstep, each full of a justifiable self-satisfaction.
Clayhanger
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I have tried a thousand times, and always without the slightest self-satisfaction.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
5
After all, the one supreme peril is that of self-satisfaction and finality.
The Altar Fire
Usage of complacence in inglés
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Class elevation is pretence, not superiority; complacence, not wisdom; impudence, not power.
The Moral Economy
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Martin grinned and accepted the invitation, marvelling the while at his complacence.
Martin Eden
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There was complacence in her voice as she cited his other gifts.
The Emigrant Trail
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The dog stood by, eying his young charge with the utmost complacence.
True Stories about Dogs and Cats
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This cool and honest speech let down his stiffened muscles into complacence.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
6
It was self-complacent, yet there was small apparent ground for such complacence.
The Woodlanders
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I could not imagine what had given him this insolent self- complacence.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1
8
Her coming fitted in well with the complacence of his mood.
A Poor Wise Man
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He leaned his arms upon the rail in an attitude of supreme complacence.
The Keeper of the Door
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They swallow worlds at leisure; creep through systems with dawdling complacence.
Foundation and Empire
11
The harm which she has done me does not permit of that complacence.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 5
12
When Nature first framed him, she took a secret complacence in her work.
Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
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The war bore me out, he observed with a certain complacence.
The Breaking Point
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In the man's handsome eyes she had surprised an unmistakable complacence.
V. V.'s Eyes
15
But Michael's clear voice startled her again out of her complacence.
Lo, Michael!
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But today, his apprehension wouldn't let him regard the cottage with his usual complacence.
Shinjū
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