Use "complacent" in a sentence

1. The churches of Sardis and Laodicea had become complacent in

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2. Many who worried about Herod"s edict of counting people, appeared to become more complacent

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3. merciless to those who were complacent

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4. He moved in mathematical grey areas which only top level players would understand if they weren’t so complacent

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5. capabilities of their enemy, and could therefore not allow themselves to become complacent

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6. An individual should never feel overly confident or complacent (over) his or her (―own‖) good fortune, but stand guard, rather, (over) its capricious designs

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7. Em was complacent and firm

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8. ―Modern‖ Society has always been complacent of its ―exclusive‖

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9. Their indifferent attitude (at times) has given force to indulgently ―tolerant‖ children, on the one hand, who have grown complacent in their (own) self-assuredness and distracted, fumbling parents who, however well-intentioned, don‘t seem to ‖get it‖

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10. The ineffectiveness of the ―United‖ Nations in brokering ―the peace‖ could be traced to some undefined moment in history when the United States and its European Allies—there was such a time!—abdicated their leadership positions that had become too unwieldy, or perhaps they simply grew weary or complacent or both and decided to observe geo-political events from the sidelines, passing the torch to inept, incipiently corrupt Third World nations lacking the proven capacity to govern by example

11. This fact is often overlooked by complacent individuals who have been (naturally) conditioned by freedom; that is to say, never had to fight for it

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12. This is the somewhat complacent attitude of some in our Church of Scotland liberal establishment

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13. ‖ She just sat there looking very complacent

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14. Perry's oily, complacent voice trickled on

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15. There was simply nothing there but Norman Douglas, big, red-bearded, complacent

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16. Most vampires had become complacent, falsely blinded in their ego, truly believing that we had obliterated our natural predators

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17. Add to this mix, complacent and below average teaching staffs and the hammer of unions and we have a prescription for failure

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18. They are cheered on by a complacent citizenry

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19. Pénélope shot me a complacent look and that was it for me, I was done

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20. caught in her throat, mankind had not gotten complacent thinking

21. a bit more secure, but she knew better than to get complacent

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22. His success made him complacent, never dreaming that

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23. Many a book was consumed about the ability of television to make my child a complacent, uncreative zombie

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24. “And you are irritatingly complacent which is why you are a mediocre actor,” she snapped, determined to wound

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25. “They have become set in their ways: complacent and afraid to change, afraid to fly out of fear’s cage, conditioned to remain entrapped

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26. “What of it?” demanded the Dangler, abandoning his complacent pretense

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27. After two hours of my flabby nephew’s know-it-all, complacent certainties I was left wondering why, having enjoyed years of freedom from family tensions, I had finally accepted the annual Christmas invitation

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28. I could not believe that we had just stolen the keys right under their noses, the Padre was a master of security but he had become complacent and was tonight too absorbed in the doxology

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29. Maybay watched the whole scene play out, at first complacent, but then the thought of how Richard would react popped into his head

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30. 12 With the close of this fifteenth year Jesus completed the traversal of that dangerous and difficult period in human existence, that time of transition between the more complacent years of childhood and the consciousness of approaching manhood with its increased responsibilities and opportunities for the acquirement of advanced experience in the development of a noble character

31. The citizens of this town were extremely complacent and accepted their town being "invaded" by foreigners so as far as he was concerned, his services were not needed

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32. Pictures of her mother as a bright looking happy child and complacent pretty teen sit framed on the newish dresser

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33. Having no weapons and with their civilisation being complacent and peaceful for so long they could not come to a decision as to what to do

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34. Destruction of the Arct was easy as due to their long domination of their part of the galaxy they had become complacent

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35. He was not complacent, though

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36. They became complacent and failed to advance past a

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37. between turns seemed to keep him complacent and it wasn't

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38. From a spiritual point of view cancer can make a person take note of a life they are wasting through frivolous life pursuits; cancer in that case pulls them from their complacent lifestyle and refocuses them to what is truly important for their spiritual growth

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39. feeling complacent about your recovery

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40. God expected His children to grow; not to remain complacent as to their

41. They then all sat down to be debriefed as a group by Jenny, who knew that the Far East Command’s headquarter in Okinawa would be expecting her report on this with great impatience: the loss of the 2nd Marine Battalion had shocked many complacent staff officers back to reality and had reportedly angered greatly General MacArthur

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42. for the mutated gene for complacent waste

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43. I fully expect them to be already working on something even better than the Mig-15, so it is not the time for us to grow complacent

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44. She could not allow herself to be complacent now, for the sake of her crew

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45. And though complacent, Gordon wondered why it was so easy to leave

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46. Ingrid thus could not afford to grow complacent

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47. We are fat and complacent, with no minds or wills of our own

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48. complacent and they aren‘t spending

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49. Those who are destroyed are the very ones who have become complacent

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50. What I mean is that we shouldn’t just close down any back door to the system, but we instead plant ideas and false information so that she becomes complacent and even reacts to what we input onto the database

51. One day, he received reports that the party workers had become complacent about victory and weren’t working hard enough

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52. Alphamet is not becoming complacent, though

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53. Let’s not be complacent it sets soft society and has the power to lead man towards arrogance

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54. The thought of Laeron as a complacent pet snapped Aesa out of his trance

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55. Complacent horses glanced over at him before bowing their heads to their hay

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56. to make my child a complacent, uncreative zombie

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57. And often while I wrote scolding you, or was being wise and complacent, or sprightly and offensive, often just then the tired feet of it were bleeding most as they stumbled among the bitter stones

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58. As the day disappeared and night came, things were falling apart fast as the spread of the infection continued from one complacent and unprepared house to another

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59. Master Jones realized that he had grown complacent in Missouri

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60. The only difficulty, or rather the main one because Kerry was certainly not complacent, was that the target trees stood in the very centre of the camp

61. Nevertheless, he told himself he must not be complacent

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62. ’ Their parents were quite clear on the fact that they were not going to evolve with the real world and therefore remain complacent in the past

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63. some of the Knights and Masters have grown complacent

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64. ers complacent, and complacency has always been one of our big-

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65. that they will get complacent and think all lifts are easy---often, the

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66. gers too long on the easiest slopes, they could get complacent and

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67. People become complacent and start losing their knowledge when they get used to the computer warning them of things like interactions, adverse reactions, dosage checks, and medication times

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68. guess I came complacent and unprepared this time, but

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69. However, I’ll never be complacent – you never know!”

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70. It was myself who was the fool, too complacent or too interested in my own affairs; or had I just avoided him because of his feelings for me? Damn his poor bones!

71. Not only that, how would one bear the thought that Lea was also sleeping with the other? Who, finally, was the more complacent, Panos or Stratos?

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72. ‘We cannot be complacent when it comes to Kena, for I feel that he is hiding

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73. Do not imagine I was complacent with this state of affairs

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74. cannot be experienced by a complacent mind

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75. more complacent about the whole thing each minute

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76. how serious this was, there was no room for the complacent boy of yester-turn

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77. “I have become too complacent

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78. The Church in Laodicea was rich and respectable, prosperous and influential, complacent and confident, but was blind to the tragedy on the doorstep

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79. they had become complacent

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80. We may have perhaps been a little complacent in our respect for things natural

81. Having meals delivered to me like in a hotel, I could see how a person could become complacent about spending the rest of their life here

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82. He had become complacent and over-confident and

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83. But as for him who is stingy and complacent

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84. with which the system chokes our vision and makes of us a complacent prisoner

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85. A complacent man may think he’s happy, but he’s accepted limitations for himself and

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86. Maybe, if she made Andrina complacent, she could pluck the phone from her pocket and run

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87. However, we should not be too complacent because hair loss can be an early warning sign of a serious medical problem

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88. Even his own, perhaps too complacent, consciousness of the agreeable improvement in his appearance might have been forgiven in such circumstances, seeing that Pyotr Petrovitch had taken up the role of fiance

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89. He did not give the complacent wraith any name, but he took her for his heroine and grew quite fond of her, as well he might, for he gifted her with every gift and grace under the sun, and escorted her, unscathed, through trials which would have annihilated any mortal woman

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90. For an instant he recognised he wasn’t as sharp as he should be and cursed himself for growing complacent

91. their pace has you feeling lazy and complacent

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92. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express

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93. With these words he approached the goblet to his lips, took a complacent draught of the cordial, slicked his hair and, opening his bosom, out popped a locket that hung from a silk riband, that very picture which he had cherished ever since her hand had wrote therein

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94. " His insufferable smile was more complacent than ever

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95. Tyndall of his complacent satisfaction in the cleverness of his experiments, and for his lack of philosophic insight

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96. ‘Here, on the other hand, it has made a great sensation,’ he said, with a complacent smile

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97. With the same complacent smile he told her of the ovations he had received in

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98. It was to Decoud as if his companion had destroyed, by a single touch, the world of affairs, of loves, of revolution, where his complacent superiority analyzed fearlessly all motives and all passions, including his own

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99. Mostly it had been compounded out of vanity and complacent confidence in her she had made a public spectacle of herself

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100. Gioconda; the years had been more than 'the sound of lyres and flutes', and had Time had wrought another change, too; not for her the sly, complacent smile of la