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complacent

adjective

NAmE//kəmˈpleɪsnt//

complacent (about somebody/something) (usually disapproving)

too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary; showing or feeling complacency a dangerously complacent attitude to the increase in unemployment We must not become complacent about progress.

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