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complacence

/kuhm-pley-suhn-see/US // kəmˈpleɪ sən si //UK // (kəmˈpleɪsənsɪ) //

自满,自鸣得意,自满情绪,自滿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural com·pla·cen·cies.

    • : a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
    • : Archaic. friendly civility; inclination to please; complaisance.a civil act.

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Examples

  • That mix of fatigue and complacency, experts said, likely led more people to start moving about and gathering together by Labor Day.

  • There was a certain complacency in the social sciences or academic community, the think-tank community.

  • In our collective experience of illness, we oscillate between anxiety and a blend of complacency and fatigue.

  • Without condemning Krvaric before his retirement as party chair, San Diego Republicans have signaled their complacency with extremism within their ranks.

  • A politician will only be as resolute as the citizen, and Indian sensitivities have been dulled by a culture of complacence.

  • Seen in this light, infant mortality and the cruel wastage of disease were viewed with complacence.

  • If he has painted vice and shown Satan in all his pomp, it is without the least complacence in the task.

  • Where there is the shining of the face we know there is more than forgiveness; there is favour and complacence.

  • The greater the number of the too longs or the too shorts the greater his complacence in the contemplation of his labours.

  • You are not adjusting your life artistically; there is too much strain, too little warmth, too much self-complacence.