Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy.
- noun An instance of contented self-satisfaction.
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- noun A
feeling ofcontented self-satisfaction , especially whenunaware ofupcoming trouble . - noun An
instance of self-satisfaction
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
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Examples
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Indeed Fifa, an organisation that brings new definition to the term complacency, has already turned a blind eye to the incident, dismissing Ahern's impassioned intervention as if it were material for a comedy sketch, a ludicrous idea.
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ROBINSON: Well, in my own career, one of the things that I learned early on was the greatest killer on the battlefield is what we call complacency, you know, the thinking that bad things is what happen to other people.
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Condemning what they call the complacency of the State Government, they have decided to abstain from the courts for a day.
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Halladay said, complacency is something that can make you peak.
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Multi-ethnic, multicultural Brazilians, addicted to tolerance but most of the time drenched in complacency, preferred to believe -- and joke about -- the eternal promise of "the country of the future" (as novelist Stefan Zweig coined it over 70 years ago).
Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States? Pepe Escobar 2010
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To dismiss the cause of integration, even through complacency, is to condemn the abject to the continuance of the system.
Racebending and Integration Hal Duncan 2010
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As Sept. 11th showed, the cost of complacency is simply too high.
Politics vs. Economics, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Halladay said, complacency is something that can make you peak.
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Anything they can do to continue their complacency is completely fine with me.
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In the light of this latest news report in Bianet, it remains the case that his non-committal assurances are as meaningless as his complacency is unacceptable.
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