- 看过 complacence 的人也看了 :
- satisfaction
- smugness
complacence 的定义
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.
complacence 近义词
等同于 conceit
更多complacence例句
- 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.