complacent

How To Use complacent In A Sentence

• Any measure that shakes up this self-satisfied and complacent group is to be encouraged. Times, Sunday Times
• His manner was rather that of a music hall artist, complacent, even cheerful, as his one-liners provoked from his audience the rejoinders he sought.
• The Banksy Effect, the term coined by journalist Max Foster several years ago, speaks to an awakening of interest in the (often illegal) interventions that artists use to call attention to the way we complacently live under larger-than-life infrastructures built (often) by one-eyed men. Dylan Kendall: Street Art: A Window to a City's Soul
• I don't think they're being "canny", just complacent. Going to war
• This lie of the complacent and complicit is the latter. The Epic and the Past
• Guthrie considered "God Bless America" too complacent, so he wrote a folk song with overtly political verses that are sometimes omitted in performances.
• In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-apparelled shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions. THE KANAKA SURF
• Before the Zeebrugge disaster many hauliers were frankly complacent about these matters.
• As long as we remain complacent in the face of injustice ... it will continue with impunity. Another Face of Brutality
• The doctor's practice in Settle has about 9,000 registered patients so we can't afford to be complacent.