Example sentences for: complacent

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

  • TV critics, at least the political-minded ones, opine gravely that Roseanne 's cancellation proves that a complacent America has lost its appetite for "real-life," "blue-collar" characters, that all TV viewers want now are 3 rd Rock From the Sun aliens and Seinfeld yuppies.

  • Rock 'n' roll is loud and young and rebellious; chamber music is soft and geriatric and bourgeois complacent.

  • and squirrel, complacent carp.

  • The album is selling tepidly; the show's been picketed by victims'-rights groups and is under threat of more pickets by Puerto Ricans opposed to racial stereotyping; the opening's been postponed to the end of the month; and, depending on which rumor you believe, the director's either so complacent that he only bothers dropping by once a week or so dozy that he hasn't noticed he's been more or less replaced by Mike ( The Graduate ) Nichols, Nick ( Miss Saigon ) Hytner or, most recently, Jerry ( Guys and Dolls ) Zaks.

  • Hack's crime is making a noise in behalf of the ordinary working soldier, and criticizing the complacent consortium of military bureaucrats, defense contractors, and their media sycophants who are all feathering their own nests at the expense of those who will risk their lives on our behalf.


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