Sentences with complacent
com·pla·cent
C c - We cannot afford to be complacent about our health. [+ about]
- The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- The novelty of them has worn off and no team will again head north with the complacent attitude of an easy win and a night in Edinburgh.
- Your editorial complacently endorsed the notion of matching the European Union average on health spending.
- The second was made up of complacent industries relying on politicians and bureaucrats to protect them.
- His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.
- As the minister for justice he was obviously very complacent about the letter sent to him by the fingerprint expert.
- It is always wise to guard against adopting a complacent or smug attitude in life as one ages.
- Nothing is 100 percent safe and nobody should be complacent at a cash machine.
- Are my followers and I supposed to sit there tomorrow and eat our turkey complacently while this persecution is occurring?
- The guys who run the companies now are sheep complacently chewing on their dollar bills.
- Plus, decades of access to cheap oil has made us lazy and complacent about energy.
- However, he is not being complacent and has already started training hard.
- But the superintendent is not complacent and is keen to reassure people there is still work to be done.
- Why are so few people scandalised by the timorous, seemingly complacent, way that the police behaved?
- And it seems to me that as a society we have become complacent about this.
- But the land as so many rubicund lumps is ultimately complacent, deflecting curiosity for what's really there.