complacently

Examples of complacent

complacent
There are several explanations for this relaxed or complacent attitude.
He compared himself to other, more complacent, employees who lacked his energy and therefore did not have his success.
The danger of compromising the sustainable agenda here is that a reasonably high profile building transmits a powerful message that complacent sustainable design is acceptable.
And, what is to be done, when those in charge of the new social policy become complacent, defensive, and out of touch with their constituencies?
All of them, he suggests, encourage economists to persist in their complacent attitude and to avoid the confrontation with real world issues and empirical data.
With the millennium scares causing some major overhauls of system security, researchers and systems manager may well now become complacent.
They have little reason too to be complacent about the results of the polls discussed here.
Both sought to break through the complacent conventions of their contemporaries.
The culture was changing, and the complacent view that music, particularly classical music, was a desirable part of adult life had to be reconsidered.
Communitarian ethics must rejuvenate bioethics discussion, which has become too complacent and reliant on standard analysis in terms of autonomy.
If the expansion of the market causes such networks to decay, we should not be complacent.
Throughout the 1990s, donors were complacent about the willingness of government to act against corruption.
Subject loss is also high given that relatively complacent children are required as test subjects.
At first glance, one might say that business was powerful and government was, at best, complacent.
Few resources have been devoted to advice services, suggesting officers or elected councillors are complacent about access to social rights, whether favouring state or market housing solutions.
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