complacency

How To Use complacency In A Sentence

• I remember that as we said good-by there was that in her smile that recalled the vulpine complacency of Mona Lisa, the Wise. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
• Because short-term indicators have not shown a precipitous decline in the economy since the referendum, a complacency seems to have set in. Times, Sunday Times
• Alan had taken his démarche with a certain kindly complacency. DARE CALL IT TREASON
• Conservatism and caution can become complacency and quietism, even though they don't start that way.
• To dismiss the cause of integration, even through complacency, is to condemn the abject to the continuance of the system. Racebending and Integration
• It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo. Jill the Reckless
• It was a gesture meant to signal that the era of complacency was over. Times, Sunday Times
• But probably God's foreknowledge of His own people means His "peculiar, gracious, complacency in them," while His "predestinating" or Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• There are still eight games left so we must avoid complacency at all costs. The Sun
• Just as it's right that we avoid smug complacency, so we shouldn't tumble into despondency and despair.