Definition of "complacency" []

• A feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy. (noun)
• An instance of contented self-satisfaction. (noun)

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• "Indeed Fifa, an organisation that brings new definition to the term complacency, has already turned a blind eye to the incident, dismissing Ahern's impassioned intervention as if it were material for a comedy sketch, a ludicrous idea."
• "ROBINSON: Well, in my own career, one of the things that I learned early on was the greatest killer on the battlefield is what we call complacency, you know, the thinking that bad things is what happen to other people."
• "Condemning what they call the complacency of the State Government, they have decided to abstain from the courts for a day."