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Complacency
"Complacency" in a Sentence (12 examples)
The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.
His complacency won't make him many friends.
All economic problems would be solved, if they made complacency taxable.
If indifference is the kiss of death for a relationship, then complacency is the kiss of death for a business.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a community organization founded in San Francisco, California, battle complacency with flamboyance and humor.
Security can lead to complacency.
Safety can lead to complacency.
“I can't let any confidence become complacency.”
Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves.
[…] looking at Mr. George Osborne's pale interesting countenance, and those beautiful black, curling, shining whiskers, which the young gentleman himself regarded with no ordinary complacency, she thought in her little heart that in His Majesty's army, or in the wide world, there never was such a face or such a hero.
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There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more. When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
"However, incidents such as the derailment at Walton-on-Thames clearly show us that there is no room for complacency."
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