complacently

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  1. In a complacent manner; with or from pleasure or gratification, especially self-satisfaction. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of morals established in England with the Parisian laxity. Macaulay, Moore's Byron.

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  • His pronouncement in that journal on the Southern secessions was embodied in the phrase: "Let our erring sisters go But while some of the strongest opponents of the South and of Slavery were disposed to accept the dismemberment of the Union almost complacently, there were men of a very different type to whom it seemed an outrage to be consummated only over their dead bodies. —  A History of the United States
  • Then one man reaches out his hand and draws over the beans to his side; and he smiles complacently, and all the others look beat and crabbed. —  Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
  • I listened complacently, then said, "My dear if I am not mistaken the Chinese discovered America." —  As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home
  • I knew you--I knew you--and your eyes were amber Sampey smiled sadly and a little complacently, and with great modesty said I can't doubt you, my dear child, but I assure you that I was unconscious of my amber eyes. —  The Ape, the Idiot ; Other People
  • Didn't you tell me that you were a Presbyterian minister I certainly did," he answered, complacently, as though he were honoring the whole great body of Presbyterians by making the statement Well, then, what in the world did you mean? —  A Voice in the Wilderness
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