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were complacent

adjective

Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.

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Perhaps it's unfair to say the players were complacent, but there was certainly a complacency about certain Ghanaian journalists.

Wayne's teachers were complacent.

"We were complacent about our own market.

They say the operation's commanders were complacent.

Many firms were complacent and uncompetitive.

They were complacent: early polls had shown Prop.

"It's easy to say we were complacent or whatever.

"I don't think we were complacent," he said.

"I think we were complacent in a lot of things.

I don't know if they were complacent, I've not played as many Ashes series as some of those guys so whether they were complacent I'm not sure.

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