Sentence examples for slightly complacent from inspiring English sources
The phrase "slightly complacent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is somewhat self-satisfied or unconcerned about potential problems or dangers. Example: "After winning the championship, the team became slightly complacent, believing they could easily win again without much effort."
With hindsight she admits that she had become slightly complacent but the new World Cup season has brought Yarnold's laser-like focus back.
"Roger isn't an evil banker, he's a slightly complacent banker," says Jones. "He's become used to a certain way of life and has a self-imposed pressure to live that way.
"It is a playful, if slightly complacent, allusion to the presence of prostitutes in the streets", Matthew Beaumont notes, and indeed the theme of prostitution continues through the book.
Uruguay – their captain Obdulio Valera strutting around as if he owned the joint – bested their expectant and slightly complacent hosts 2-1 in what was effectively the final (although with Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Alcides Ghiggia also in their team, Uruguay were probably just the better side).
"There's a smoothness, a slightly comic-book-complacent solution, to his chins and ears".
The reason is not that teams become cocky, complacent or lazy when they are slightly ahead.
Judith McGrath Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands We old codgers are not complacent of youth (Owen Jones, Opinion, 4 February), merely slightly surprised that its radical aspirations are merely to have a slice of the middle-class lifestyle we enjoy and wish to preserve.
He warned governments and banks not to become complacent, while the central bank's staff economists issued slightly more pessimistic projections for the 17-country euro zone economy that point to a 0.1 percent contraction in gross domestic product for this year.
"In the US the fact that we are doing slightly better than our pears does not been we can be complacent", Ermotti commented.
This has been called "complacent" behaviour.
