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was complacent
adjective
Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
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I was complacent.
Instead, his strategy was complacent.
"At first I was complacent.
The committee suggested this was complacent.
Despite warnings, the home office was complacent.
The government was complacent!" Ross said.
I was complacent, I was satisfied, I was content.
The BBC's coverage in this last phase was complacent.
Tejada perhaps had not put in extra work because he was complacent.
Yet he hints that Kodak was complacent, even when its troubles were obvious.
"The old council, which we sort of swept away, was complacent, paternalistic and patronising," he says.
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