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complacency

noun as in contentment

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“It’d be great if we weren’t tested this way, but you know what? We probably need to be shaken out of our complacency,” he said.

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His worst critics perceived this outlook as complacency, something insufficiently mordant for any writer of the long, wicked 20th century.

Rogers told the audience of a recent conversation with a software entrepreneur who developed an education platform, which she argued epitomized Canada’s complacency.

Anderson says that three things are inevitable: middle age, complacency and the tendency to look at the next generation with disdain.

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He said the families were "extremely concerned" about an evidential picture which indicated a "series of system failings, complacency, a lack of curiosity and inadequacy".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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