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- noun Plural form of
complacency .
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Examples
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Several crises resulted in successions of complacencies, lack of courage and... complete disrespect of the Stability Pact.
Georges Ugeux: The European Crisis Was Predictable and Is Salutary for the Euro Georges Ugeux 2011
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It also triggers us to recognize our dependencies, our complacencies, and those everyday things we have taken for granted.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: Our Social Crises -- From Breakdown to Breakthrough Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2011
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An immersion of this sort in the deep ethos of literature, in its placeless disposition of indwelling effect, refuses the complacencies of the inscribed.
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But now we have a centralized corporately controlled Media that can and often does report on a different "reality," the one in their own heads, the one that happens to justify their own complacencies, vanities, egos, prejudices, salaries, social status and privileges.
Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and the American Okee-doke 2008
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But now we have a centralized corporately controlled Media that can and often does report on a different "reality," the one in their own heads, the one that happens to justify their own complacencies, vanities, egos, prejudices, salaries, social status and privileges.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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A film about children, but lacking the usual complacencies about childish innocence.
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We seem to be much more content with representation and/or political leadership that doesn't challenge our complacencies or our minds.
Archive 2008-02-01 Dave 2008
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With the prayer and fasting, I am “in training” making myself ready for whatever comes, because whatever comes is going to be very different; it will jar us from all of our complacencies.
Archive 2008-10-01 Sara 2008
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With the prayer and fasting, I am “in training” making myself ready for whatever comes, because whatever comes is going to be very different; it will jar us from all of our complacencies.
yes, exactly Sara 2008
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After the carnival pageantry of the State of the Union, Rod's dismal complacencies come across like the mutterings of a crank trapped in an elevator.
Is this the person you want to be listening to a year from now? Ann Althouse 2008
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