Complacent
complacent, complaisant (adjective) - does not feel that they need to deal with problems they should be dealing with
complacently (adverb) -
complacency (noun) -
complacent about
become complacent
grew complacent
a complacent attitude
lazy and complacent
slow and complacent
snobbish and complacent
relaxed and complacent
looking too complacent
a complacent grin
smugly complacent
complacent assumptions
a complacent conclusion
complacent about a situation
somewhat complacent
far from complacent
dangerously complacent
afford to be complacent
appear to be complacent
Example sentences:
* We can't afford to be complacent on this issue.
* The service was not complacent and was always trying to improve.
* I hope you won't be complacent about this situation. She is one of our most valued clients, you know.
* Avoid looking too complacent by not sitting too comfortably in your chair.
* No one with the job of managing the company's safety can be complacent. Vigilance is required.
* After the stunning first quarter results, the CEO's attitude towards most everything was smugly complacent.
* The company grew complacent after many boom years when customers were easy to find.
* He has been far from complacent about the problems the department faces, working on them each night until midnight.
* After several boom years the sales people had become arrogant, complacent, and unresponsive.
* She responded to him sleepily with a long complacent purr.
* With no direct contact with customers over time the engineers became complacent and slow moving.
* After taunting him, he gave him the most infuriatingly complacent grin.
* "He folded his complacent white hands over his considerable girth." (Source: British National Corpus)
* "You're about as bloody complacent as that statue over there." (Source: British National Corpus)
* I hope I don't seem insufferably snobbish and complacent. I'm trying to strike the right imagine. Help me.
* Over the years he became impervious to new ideas and complacent, in short, unwilling and unable to adapt to change.
* The hungry will always prevail over the comfortable and complacent.
* We must dispell any complacent assumptions you may have before you start reading this report.
* When the peripheral units became lazy and complacent they were immediately liquidated.
* This report has come to a disturbingly complacent conclusion.
* Relaxed and complacent, as his retirement neared he had just the right frame of mind.
