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complacency

noun as in contentment

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In one sentence, he asserts: “Panic is worse than complacency.”

A psychiatrist who attended one such conference blamed television for the complacency.

But judging by our complacency, you would be forgiven for not knowing this.

They went out of their way to tell me how such programs “breed” complacency, laziness, and—wait for it—dependency.

This is a film that takes apart your complacency as surely as this alien world destroys Thomas Newton.

But with the immaculate conception of Mary, a being full of grace, an object of God's supreme complacency entered this world.

It hardly ruffled the calm stream of his self-complacency, and, for some reasons, he was rather glad that it had happened.

It fell, and you were made to look with complacency on objects which not long since you would have regarded with horror.

Then, in the givers and in their gifts, in the workers and in their work, the Divine heart finds infinite complacency.

Maitland regained his old self-complacency in time and was dreadfully mysterious and Maitlandish about the whole affair.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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