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To complacent
adjective
Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
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This may be a significant warning to complacent Christians.
Manhattan dwellers are particularly susceptible to complacent insularity.
The increase was among employees and people outside the workforce rather than the usual suspects – the self-employed – largely related to complacent lenders.
In contrast to "complacent" Clarke, the paper's editorial argued that "many intelligent voters are mightily cheered up by Nigel Farage's common sense".
Any extra money in this tight final phase of the election is being wired to Nevada and Florida for more Spanish-language ads, to Iowa and Ohio for more on-the-ground staff members, and to Google and Facebook for more microtargeted messaging to complacent, maybe even demoralized, young supporters.
Through his Rabbit novels alone, which follow the fluctuating fortunes of high school basketball ace Harry Angstrom from 1960-2001, Updike furnished us with a roadmap of his country's postwar progress, from 50s smalltown conservatism through the upheaval of Vietnam and race relations to complacent and bloated late capitalism, all inked in prose whose airy loveliness consistently astonishes.
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It is surely psychologically impossible to be complacent and to play with fear.
But it's important not to be complacent and to think that everything is hunky-dory.
We need to remind young people not to be complacent".
"It's not for us to be complacent, or indeed for the providers to be complacent," she says.
Mr Blair recently wrote to Labour MPs warning them not to be complacent.
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