The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself.
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Examples for "complacency "
Examples for "complacency "
1 Investors learned the perils of complacency in Europe's fiscal crisis last year.
2 In the latter case however, the hepatitis C epidemic cautions against complacency .
3 Pellegrini denied City have a problem with complacency against so-called lesser teams.
4 The unsurprising result is investor complacency amid many signs of market excess.
5 Therefore, public reporting of individual surgeons' outcomes could lead to false complacency .
1 The father had a Scotch look of shrewd narrowness, and entire self - complacency .
2 The injury she could least forgive was a hurt to her self - complacency .
3 Never had she seen such intense self - complacency coupled with such utter mediocrity.
4 There was none of the fire-proof self-complacency-Self-sufficiency ,shehad, but not self-righteousness
5 There were attempts to show that British self - complacency was not altogether justified.
1 And he looked round in self - satisfaction at the officer of the gendarmerie.
2 The element of pathos in her self - satisfaction was too much for him.
3 The two met on the doorstep, each full of a justifiable self - satisfaction .
4 I have tried a thousand times, and always without the slightest self - satisfaction .
5 After all, the one supreme peril is that of self - satisfaction and finality.
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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