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complacent

/kuhm-pley-suhnt/US // kəmˈpleɪ sənt //UK // (kəmˈpleɪsənt) //

得意忘形,洋洋得意,得意洋洋,洋洋自得

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
    • : agreeable and eager to please.

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Examples

  • I’m actually disturbed that much of the scientific and public health community seems complacent to make their best guesses and move on without getting to the root cause of the pandemic.

  • A few good, plentiful harvests since allowed winemakers and growers to become complacent.

  • Britany is complacent and calls each of her conquests “her boyfriend.”

  • Keeping a dynamic mindset and test-and-adapt approach is the surest way to stay in front of competition — and it’s a sure bet against becoming complacent.

  • This move by Ohio mirrors what other states have done to spur skeptical or complacent residents to get vaccinated, but with a bigger enticement.

  • The more people are comfortable and complacent, the more it plays into things that are destroying the world.

  • The final score flattered Brazil, which had looked ragged and complacent for much of the game.

  • She declared, “We cannot remain complacent as this administration takes aim at our children.”

  • It alerted people to the fact that a lot had become complacent about the possibility of a bear attack.

  • In politically complacent Japan, thousands of citizens took to the street in the last two weeks to protest the measure.

  • He motioned Harkness to a chair and resumed his complacent contemplation of a picture that was flowing across a screen.

  • "It means I wouldn't get married till you are married, anyway," was the complacent answer.

  • Savary declared that the smiling and complacent young Czar thought the remark delightful.

  • That complacent remark struck the ear awry, like the whine of a deacons report at a Sunday-school convention.

  • Gabriel uttered "a little" in a tone to show her that it was the complacent form of "a great deal."