The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself.
1 Class elevation is pretence, not superiority; complacence , not wisdom; impudence, not power.
2 Martin grinned and accepted the invitation, marvelling the while at his complacence .
3 There was complacence in her voice as she cited his other gifts.
4 The dog stood by, eying his young charge with the utmost complacence .
5 This cool and honest speech let down his stiffened muscles into complacence .
6 It was self-complacent, yet there was small apparent ground for such complacence .
7 I could not imagine what had given him this insolent self- complacence .
8 Her coming fitted in well with the complacence of his mood.
9 He leaned his arms upon the rail in an attitude of supreme complacence .
10 They swallow worlds at leisure; creep through systems with dawdling complacence .
11 The harm which she has done me does not permit of that complacence .
12 When Nature first framed him, she took a secret complacence in her work.
13 The war bore me out, he observed with a certain complacence .
14 In the man's handsome eyes she had surprised an unmistakable complacence .
15 But Michael's clear voice startled her again out of her complacence .
16 But today, his apprehension wouldn't let him regard the cottage with his usual complacence .
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