Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy.
- n. An instance of contented self-satisfaction.
Wiktionary
- n. A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.
- n. An instance of self-satisfaction
WordNet 3.0
- n. the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
Examples
“Indeed Fifa, an organisation that brings new definition to the term complacency, has already turned a blind eye to the incident, dismissing Ahern's impassioned intervention as if it were material for a comedy sketch, a ludicrous idea.”
“ROBINSON: Well, in my own career, one of the things that I learned early on was the greatest killer on the battlefield is what we call complacency, you know, the thinking that bad things is what happen to other people.”
“Condemning what they call the complacency of the State Government, they have decided to abstain from the courts for a day.”
“To dismiss the cause of integration, even through complacency, is to condemn the abject to the continuance of the system.”
“As Sept. 11th showed, the cost of complacency is simply too high.”
Politics vs. Economics, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Anything they can do to continue their complacency is completely fine with me.”
“In the light of this latest news report in Bianet, it remains the case that his non-committal assurances are as meaningless as his complacency is unacceptable.”
“Multi-ethnic, multicultural Brazilians, addicted to tolerance but most of the time drenched in complacency, preferred to believe -- and joke about -- the eternal promise of "the country of the future" (as novelist Stefan Zweig coined it over 70 years ago).”
The Huffington Post: Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
“Halladay said, complacency is something that can make you peak.”
“In these bad economic times, complacency is a sure bet for failure.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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Interesting words
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gre2
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
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princeton review
jubilance, obtrusive, maladjusted, prodigious, incredulous, stolidity, inured, stoicism, sidereal, boisterous, etiolated, circumscribed and 90 more...
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artoparts's Words
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Mimi
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GRE
acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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my dictionary
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The Spectacle
DISTRACT, STARE, CONSUME
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Hodges English 10 Vocab
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aberration, acrimony, adduce, anthropomorphous, caitiff, chagrin, clement, connote, deluge, deride, dissemble, edify and 213 more...
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AP Rhetorical Devices
asyndeton, aphorism, polysyndeton, characterize, antagonist, antihero, audience, diction, foil, mood, motif, protagonist and 153 more...
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Rita's List of Words
preliminary, rudimentary, stance, conduit, locale, implicit, vicissitude, empirical, repository, apophthegm, apothegm, invariable and 431 more...
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The Golem's Eye
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