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    complacent


    1. The churches of Sardis and Laodicea had become complacent in


    2. Many who worried about Herod"s edict of counting people, appeared to become more complacent


    3. merciless to those who were complacent


    4. He moved in mathematical grey areas which only top level players would understand if they weren’t so complacent


    5. capabilities of their enemy, and could therefore not allow themselves to become complacent


    6. An individual should never feel overly confident or complacent (over) his or her (―own‖) good fortune, but stand guard, rather, (over) its capricious designs


    7. Em was complacent and firm


    8. ―Modern‖ Society has always been complacent of its ―exclusive‖


    9. Their indifferent attitude (at times) has given force to indulgently ―tolerant‖ children, on the one hand, who have grown complacent in their (own) self-assuredness and distracted, fumbling parents who, however well-intentioned, don‘t seem to ‖get it‖


    10. The ineffectiveness of the ―United‖ Nations in brokering ―the peace‖ could be traced to some undefined moment in history when the United States and its European Allies—there was such a time!—abdicated their leadership positions that had become too unwieldy, or perhaps they simply grew weary or complacent or both and decided to observe geo-political events from the sidelines, passing the torch to inept, incipiently corrupt Third World nations lacking the proven capacity to govern by example

    11. This fact is often overlooked by complacent individuals who have been (naturally) conditioned by freedom; that is to say, never had to fight for it


    12. This is the somewhat complacent attitude of some in our Church of Scotland liberal establishment


    13. ‖ She just sat there looking very complacent


    14. Perry's oily, complacent voice trickled on


    15. There was simply nothing there but Norman Douglas, big, red-bearded, complacent


    16. Most vampires had become complacent, falsely blinded in their ego, truly believing that we had obliterated our natural predators


    17. Add to this mix, complacent and below average teaching staffs and the hammer of unions and we have a prescription for failure


    18. They are cheered on by a complacent citizenry


    19. Pénélope shot me a complacent look and that was it for me, I was done


    20. caught in her throat, mankind had not gotten complacent thinking

    21. a bit more secure, but she knew better than to get complacent


    22. His success made him complacent, never dreaming that


    23. Many a book was consumed about the ability of television to make my child a complacent, uncreative zombie


    24. “And you are irritatingly complacent which is why you are a mediocre actor,” she snapped, determined to wound


    25. “They have become set in their ways: complacent and afraid to change, afraid to fly out of fear’s cage, conditioned to remain entrapped


    26. “What of it?” demanded the Dangler, abandoning his complacent pretense


    27. After two hours of my flabby nephew’s know-it-all, complacent certainties I was left wondering why, having enjoyed years of freedom from family tensions, I had finally accepted the annual Christmas invitation


    28. I could not believe that we had just stolen the keys right under their noses, the Padre was a master of security but he had become complacent and was tonight too absorbed in the doxology


    29. Maybay watched the whole scene play out, at first complacent, but then the thought of how Richard would react popped into his head


    30. 12 With the close of this fifteenth year Jesus completed the traversal of that dangerous and difficult period in human existence, that time of transition between the more complacent years of childhood and the consciousness of approaching manhood with its increased responsibilities and opportunities for the acquirement of advanced experience in the development of a noble character

    31. The citizens of this town were extremely complacent and accepted their town being "invaded" by foreigners so as far as he was concerned, his services were not needed


    32. Pictures of her mother as a bright looking happy child and complacent pretty teen sit framed on the newish dresser


    33. Having no weapons and with their civilisation being complacent and peaceful for so long they could not come to a decision as to what to do


    34. Destruction of the Arct was easy as due to their long domination of their part of the galaxy they had become complacent


    35. He was not complacent, though


    36. They became complacent and failed to advance past a


    37. between turns seemed to keep him complacent and it wasn't


    38. From a spiritual point of view cancer can make a person take note of a life they are wasting through frivolous life pursuits; cancer in that case pulls them from their complacent lifestyle and refocuses them to what is truly important for their spiritual growth


    39. feeling complacent about your recovery


    40. God expected His children to grow; not to remain complacent as to their

    41. They then all sat down to be debriefed as a group by Jenny, who knew that the Far East Command’s headquarter in Okinawa would be expecting her report on this with great impatience: the loss of the 2nd Marine Battalion had shocked many complacent staff officers back to reality and had reportedly angered greatly General MacArthur


    42. for the mutated gene for complacent waste


    43. I fully expect them to be already working on something even better than the Mig-15, so it is not the time for us to grow complacent


    44. She could not allow herself to be complacent now, for the sake of her crew


    45. And though complacent, Gordon wondered why it was so easy to leave


    46. Ingrid thus could not afford to grow complacent


    47. We are fat and complacent, with no minds or wills of our own


    48. complacent and they aren‘t spending


    49. Those who are destroyed are the very ones who have become complacent


    50. What I mean is that we shouldn’t just close down any back door to the system, but we instead plant ideas and false information so that she becomes complacent and even reacts to what we input onto the database














































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    Synonyms for "complacent"

    complacent self-complacent self-satisfied smug at ease apathetic nonchalant acquiescent docile compliant submissive

    "complacent" definitions

    contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions