Complacency
[kəm'pleɪs(ə)nsɪ] or [kəm'plesnsi]
Definition
(noun.) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; 'his complacency was absolutely disgusting'.
Edited by Ian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification.
(n.) The cause of pleasure or joy.
(n.) The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.
Checked by Douglas
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Satisfaction, gratification, pleasure, content, contentment.[2]. Civility, courtesy, politeness, complaisance.
Typist: Tyler
Examples
- Mrs. Bry's admiration was a mirror in which Lily's self-complacency recovered its lost outline. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Wounded desperate, miss,' replied Giles, with indescribable complacency. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Esterhazy laughed with the most perfect self-complacency. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Chesney Wold, Thomas, rejoins the housekeeper with proud complacency, will set my Lady up! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Their brother, indeed, was the only one of the party whom she could regard with any complacency. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I have just been to see her, said Mr. van der Luyden, complacency restored to his brow. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- From early youth he had considered his pedigree with complacency, and bitterly lamented his want of wealth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Indeed, he gradually came to regard it as such, and to feel a sense of personal complacency when he chanced on any reference to the Gryce Americana. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Know yourself, Raymond, and your indignation will cease; your complacency return. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mrs. Norris was all delight and volubility; and even Fanny had something to say in admiration, and might be heard with complacency. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Miss Mary--a well-looked, well-meant, and, on the whole, well-dispositioned girl--wore her complacency with some state, though without harshness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No one who watched the textile strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1912 can forget the astounding effect it had on the complacency of the public. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The word _home_ made his father look on him with fresh complacency. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Once more, he took me by both hands and surveyed me with an air of admiring proprietorship: smoking with great complacency all the while. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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