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Sentences ending with complacent
- Suspicion is slow to seize the complacent. [9]
More example sentences with the word complacent in them
- The world is very complacent, and apparently worships success and votes for smartness, but it would surprise some of our most successful men to know what a real respect there is in the community, after all, for downright integrity. [4]
- The Spirit in these complacent souls, as yet unstirred . [9]
- There is something so innocent, so guileless, so complacent, so unearthly serene and self-satisfied about this peerless "hog-wash," that the man must be made of stone who can read it without a dulcet ecstasy creeping along his backbone and quivering in his marrow. [5]
- I had just slipped up on poor smiling and complacent Dowley so nice and easy and softly, that he never suspected anything was going to happen till the blow came crashing down and knocked him all to rags. [5]
- In the momentary silence that followed, somebody raised his voice, and in a tone of complacent derision "wondered what Jimmy Madison would say now. [4]
- It was the sequel to his complacent reflections on his success in Petersburg. [2]
- Here, then, he sat, one leg cocked carelessly over the other, his chin resting on the palm of his hand, his head turned a little on one side, and his ugly features twisted into a complacent grimace. [12]
- The prominent characteristic of the Poems is affectation, artificiality; their makeup is a complacent and pretentious outpour of false figures and fine writing, in the sophomoric style. [5]
- Yet the inspirer of Mrs. Eddy the new Infallible casts a complacent critical stone at the other Infallible for being unable to make up its mind about such things. [5]
- It reminded me of Launcelot riding in Sir Kay's armor and astonishing complacent Knights who thought they had struck a soft thing. [5]
- In the eyes of a complacent, arm-chair historian he must have appeared one of the, strange and terrifying creatures which, in times of upheaval, are thrust from the depths of democracies to the surface, with gifts to voice the longings and passions of those below. [9]
- I know of nothing that makes one feel more complacent, in these July days, than to have his vegetables from his own garden. [4]
- With five hundred men ready to turn him loose in the plains without dogs or food, he carried himself with a watchful coolness and complacent determination which got home to their minds with great force. [11]
- That reason was furnished me by the complacent and unfrightened prophets four years ago, and it has been furnished me again to-day. [5]
- I thought he even looked as if he were thinking, with complacent vanity, that his own skull would look well on top of the heap and his own ribs add a charm to the frescoes which possibly they lacked at present. [5]
- That sounded pretty complacent, but barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. [5]
- But Eda, however complacent her interest in the scenes themselves, was thrilled to the marrow by their effect on Janet, who was her medium. [9]
- Not only Nicholas, but even Natasha understood the meaning of his puckered brow and the happy complacent smile that slightly puckered his lips when Anisya Fedorovna entered. [2]
- Their manner and attitudes were the last expression of complacent self-righteousness. [5]
- Its amusing audacity and complacent superiority, the mystery hanging about its writers, its affectation of indifference to praise or profit, its fearless criticism, lively wit, and irresponsible humor, piqued, puzzled, and delighted the town. [4]
- Indoors he regarded all Jo did with eager interest and a pleased, complacent look, and readily did as he was told. [11]
- We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may even hope for a day, many centuries hence, when our posterity will look down upon us in the same way. [5]
- He must have a consuming contempt for the ignorant, complacent asses that go skurrying about the world in these railroading days and call it traveling. [5]
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