Smug self-satisfaction

Usage examples of complacency.

His passions by this interview, more private, and in which his captive had beheld him with an eye of greater complacency than ever, were inflamed to the extremest degree.

Aghadez, it would appear that the people were disposed to look upon him with the same complacency as they are wont to regard the pagans, or En-sara as they call them, of Gouber and Maradee.

When they viewed with complacency the extent of their own mental powers, when they exercised the various faculties of memory, of fancy, and of judgment, in the most profound speculations, or the most important labors, and when they reflected on the desire of fame, which transported them into future ages, far beyond the bounds of death and of the grave, they were unwilling to confound themselves with the beasts of the field, or to suppose that a being, for whose dignity they entertained the most sincere admiration, could be limited to a spot of earth, and to a few years of duration.

While the fancy thus wanders over landscapes partly of its own creation, a sweet complacency steals upon the mind, and Refines it all to subtlest feeling, Bids the tear of rapture roll.

The Stolsh, limited by complacency and the kind of cultural technophobia associated with most low-tech worlds, had little better.

Love between the sexes begets a complacency and good-will, very distinct from the gratification of an appetite.

She was struck with the excited look of Euthymia, being herself quite calm, and contemplating her project with entire complacency.

I hate the stupid bovine complacency of the grassers, and the feral snarls of the half-wild akk dogs.

Phil Harkens, a splendidly proportioned he-man with glossy dark brown hair, was talking to Lorna with the confidence and complacency begotten of his awareness of his strength and beauty.

Anthony was presiding over a pile of books, catalogues and printouts looking sour: his version of smug complacency.

England, on pretence of believing he had been abroad, and with great complacency repeated their former professions of friendship.

It may be said that the average Divisionist lives in a continual crisis of fear and rage, unable to achieve either the self-righteous complacency of the Senders or the relaxed depravity of the Liquefactionists.

The complacency of Stevens, however, was too well grounded to be much disturbed by such an exhibition.

In like manner, the hen sitteth in complacency, but she bringeth forth and may cackle.

To begin with, the thing was so antipodally at variance with the whole chain of horrors preceding it - the change of mood from stark terror to cool complacency and even exultation was so unheralded, lightning-like, and complete!