Example sentences for: complacency

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

  • With just a few quick strokes, writer-director M. N. Shyamalan paints a totally authentic-feeling picture of yuppiedom--its decent intentions, complacency, and loneliness--and I didn't see a less whitewashed or sensational portrait of working-class family life this year.

  • Microsoft has slowed down after an amazing 20 years, and the company now fears bloating and complacency.

  • Wilde himself was endlessly transgressive, always finding a new way to jab Victorian complacency.

  • It's one thing to be a deeply ignorant man with a satin-skinned complacency, a cheek unwrinkled by self-doubt.

  • But with self-confidence came complacency, and the French bourgeoisie was cast again onto shifting ground with the massive student rebellions of 1968.


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