What is "complacently"

Usage examples of "complacently".

And behind the house was the chicken coop, a miniature of its shanty self, where conceited hens stalked complacently about peering beadily this way and that, crooning their smug song of the Sacred Vessel, and squirting their droppings in the grass with the righteousness of saints.

And Sibley complacently sipped his wine as if he had stated all there was to be said on the subject.

Complacently referring to their place of work as Thoughtworld, for instance, where was the sense in that?

She was complacently anxious enough to prefer solitude and be willing to read.

Now that the blow had fallen and she knew the full extent of its weight, her feeling towards the bringer of bad news, who sat complacently nibbling at her tea-cakes and scattering crumbs of tiresome small-talk at her feet, was one of wholehearted dislike.

Francesca thanked him for his story, and complacently inscribed the figure 4 on the margin of her theatre programme.

He looked complacently at the neat range of Petri dishes round the table and the test samples he had so far extracted.

James complacently, swaying back and forth as he finished off the now diminished roach.

The driver tossed his gathered reins out on the ground, gaped and stretched complacently, drew off his heavy buckskin gloves with great deliberation and insufferable dignity--taking not the slightest notice of a dozen solicitous inquires after his health, and humbly facetious and flattering accostings, and obsequious tenders of service, from five or six hairy and half-civilized station-keepers and hostlers who were nimbly unhitching our steeds and bringing the fresh team out of the stables--for in the eyes of the stage-driver of that day, station-keepers and hostlers were a sort of good enough low creatures, useful in their place, and helping to make up a world, but not the kind of beings which a person of distinction could afford to concern himself with.

But in the night the pup would get stretchy and brace his feet against the old man's back and shove, grunting complacently the while.

It entertained me to observe him sitting by, while we danced, sometimes in deep meditation, sometimes smiling complacently, sometimes looking upon Hooke's Roman History, and sometimes talking a little amidst the noise of the ball, to Mr.

Luke Steffink was complacently proud of his cow-house and his two cows.

The Rector's wife might be content to turn her back complacently on the country.

WThen she bought silver buckles on credit, let her servants’ wages fall into arrears, pawned her jewelry up to the value of 1,000 marks, the King complacently paid her debts, and in 1358, when she was 26, assigned her a regular income of another /1,000 a year, which was duly paid as long as he lived.

They were, in short, heathens and -- as they were once complacently catalogued by a distinguished prelate of the Church of England -- Dissenters.