Example sentences for: complacency

How can you use “complacency” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some commentators adopt a stance of racial pessimism because they fear that making concessions to the optimists will breed complacency and inhibit the efforts needed for still further progress.

  • Steve Roberts medals in singles competition for shoehorning his opinion that presidential diplomacy is "indispensable" in the New World Order into both Washington Week in Review and Late Edition . Never one for complacency, he teams up with his wife, Cokie Roberts of This Week , for the doubles competition: The pair repeat the prediction that even privatization-friendly Dems will cynically whack GOP candidates who dare to support privatizing Social Security.

  • Even worse news: Bottom-line-obsessed universities won't challenge this complacency because they can't afford to offend their paying customers.

  • With homage to our potent POTUS, there is, I think, a Third Way that's neither sexual complacency nor standard self-help.


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