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- noun Excessive
complacency .
Etymologies
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over- + complacency
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Examples
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Dan Bystrom , head of U.S. equity derivatives trading, at MF Global Inc., views the contrast as one of several signs of overcomplacency in the market, at a time when a variety of macroeconomic head winds could blow stocks back.
Options Flash a Caution Sign for '11 Brendan Conway 2011
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If there be a fault in these cats, overcomplacency might be the name for it; they err a shade too sure of themselves, and their assumption that the world means to treat them respectfully has just a little taint of the grande dame.
Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907
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