The phrase "as a complacent" is not correct and usable in written English without additional context.
It can be used when describing someone or something that is self-satisfied or unconcerned, but it typically requires a noun to follow it for clarity.
Example: "He approached the situation as a complacent individual, believing everything would work out on its own."
Alternatives: "as a self-satisfied" or "as an unconcerned".
Mr. Woods often criticized what he saw as a complacent and distracted status quo in his field.
Mr. Bloomberg, who clearly wants to jolt what he sees as a complacent system, had a different explanation.
Her early form was good, but there was trouble ahead in the shape of Natasha Zvereva, as a complacent Navratilova paid the price for her brashness.
In the statement read on the video showing Mr. Berg's death, a masked man tries to chide what he regards as a complacent Muslim clergy and to threaten President Bush with a humiliating defeat.
Outside her own party she confronted what she regarded as a complacent establishment, whether in the BBC or the Foreign Office.But Mrs Thatcher also declared war on the organised working-class, breaking the power of the unions in a series of set-piece confrontations in the mid-1980s, culminatheg in the year-long miners' strike of 1984-85.
Suggested by Steve H, Valerio Fiandra The Newsroom's Will McAvoy begins the series as a complacent, disgruntled anchor who declares that the United States is no longer the greatest country on earth — a cardinal sin in America — in a video that goes viral.
With the U.N. paralyzed as usual, we see a complacent China, a mischievous Russia, an appeasing South Korea -- as well as accommodationists in the U.S. -- demanding that the U.S. submit to another round of blackmail.
There is potential for the novelist to stumble as well, by opting for a complacent patronizing of her hapless couple or a mean-spirited evisceration of their limitations.
The Daily Mail reads Trump's win as a revolt against "a complacent liberal elite" that includes, but is not confined to, media pundits, the BBC, "bienpensant politicians" and "the massed ranks of luvvies".
Levov might also be seen as the emblem of a complacent middle-class that assumed the world's troubles would pass them by — Roth shows how the house of cards can come tumbling down.
The tenor Timothy Robinson sings appealingly in the scene at House Beautiful; Colin Judson, also a tenor, sings Lord Lechery's apostrophe to debauchery in the Vanity Fair scene colorfully; and mezzo-soprano Ann Murray and Mr. Robinson are amusing as Mr. and Mrs. By-Ends, a complacent middle class couple.
