Sentence examples for to complacent from inspiring English sources

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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.

But comfortable can be very close to complacent.

Manhattan dwellers are particularly susceptible to complacent insularity.

So it was a big surprise to complacent American manufacturers when Honda started making cars equally efficiently, using American workers on American soil.

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University press) delivered a well placed kick up the backside to complacent mainstream economics.

The increase was among employees and people outside the workforce rather than the usual suspects – the self-employed – largely related to complacent lenders.

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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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