complacently

com·pla·cent (k

m-pl

nt)

adj.

1. Contented to a fault; self-satisfied and unconcerned: He had become complacent after years of success.

2. Eager to please; complaisant.

[Latin complacns, complacent-, present participle of complacre, to please : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + placre, to please; see plk-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

com·placent·ly adv.

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Adv.

complacently - in a self-satisfied manner; "he complacently lived out his life as a village school teacher"

Translations

complacently [kəmˈpleɪsəntlɪ] ADV → de modo satisfecho
he looked at me complacently → me miró con expresión de autosatisfacción

complacently [kəmˈpleɪs^əntli] adv

(in a self-satisfied way) → avec suffisance
to smile complacently → sourire avec suffisance

(= unthinkingly) → complaisamment

complacently

adv → selbstzufrieden or -gefällig; those who complacently accept their parents’ beliefs → diejenigen, die die Ansichten ihrer Eltern unreflektiert übernehmen

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Waldengarver looked up at us complacently, and said:

Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context

He chirruped, and then complacently continued: "My wives at this moment receiving the sound of one of my voices, closely followed by the other, and perceiving that the latter reaches them after an interval in which sound can traverse 6.

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context

Mazarin, this evening, gave an address, and made an appointment as complacently as M.

Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

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