Definition of Complacency

Complacency

Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification.

The cause of pleasure or joy.

The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.

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Complacency Quotations

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Jimmy Carter

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Pat Riley

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Aesop

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
Wynton Marsalis

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.
Ron Chernow

The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.
Mark Foley

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
Sidney Blumenthal

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
Peter Maxwell Davies

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
Douglas Dunn

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
Timothy White

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
Nigel Kennedy

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
Diane Ravitch

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
Charles Grassley

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Complacency Translations

complacency in German is Wohlbehagen
complacency in Norwegian is selvtilfredshet
complacency in Spanish is complacencia

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