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Discover LudwigSentence The use of "complacent at" is not correct.
We would use "complacent about" instead. Example: He was becoming complacent about his success in the competition.
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He was certainly complacent at times.
It would be dangerous to be complacent at this stage.
The France international had been lethargic and complacent at Rooney's goal.
Not complacent at all, but eager to get back out on the track.
We must not be complacent at moments of success, and we must not despair over setbacks.
All this has led central bankers to be terribly optimistic, if not complacent, at least in public.
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"I don't want to get complacent, especially at this level.
Stasis and, a sense, fair or not, of complacent corruption at the center, always work in France to the advantage of the far right.
The New Yorker, November 26, 1955 P. 45 Overheard - two complacent ladies, at a candle-lit caffe espresso: "He's going into politics, you know".
By Maeve Brennan and St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, November 26 , 1955P. 45 Overheard - two complacent ladies, at a candle-lit caffe espresso: "He's going into politics, you know".
On the other hand Mr. Kiefer, Mr. Baselitz and Beuys, in the name of confronting history, seem to have turned from anarchic acts of constructive mayhem, which usefully rattled complacent Germans at first, increasingly toward works about myth, mysticism and nature: grand themes that sometimes uncomfortably recalled Nazi motifs and diverted their production toward new forms of pompous escapism.
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