complacent

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But it also made it easy to become complacent, which is how I met my fate.

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contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity"

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adjective

contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for complacent.

adjective

contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity"

Example sentences

But it also made it easy to become complacent, which is how I met my fate.

I'm fairly complacent about Google on this issue.

It's because they got complacent, and because they never changed.

This is especially true at the complacent top of society.

If children are taught to be complacent with their privacy that can absolutely extend into adulthood.

That seems unlikely with a complacent and apathetic populace.

At the same time, they're toeing a delicate line between improving drivers' safety and causing them to become complacent.

It is ripe for disruption as the dominant sites grow bloated and complacent, only seeing acquisitions as the way to grow.

"We become complacent with our picture of the world and continue on whatever trajectory we were on when we stopped recalibrating.

We sometimes get complacent because we're in a pretty positive industry and often times regulation can stifle innovation.

However, all digital security is undergoing a period of massively increased attack, and we should never be complacent.

" The issue is when you pick up enough nickels and watch for the steamrollers vigilantly first few times, you grow complacent and think that you are the master of nickel pickers and steamrollers are slow mofo's.

Users can be more easily "herded" and persuaded, if they have little knowledge of how things work; just keep them consuming and complacent, because knowledge is power, and we don't want them to have too much of that.