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Complacently

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com·pla·cent  (km-plsnt)
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.1.complacently - in a self-satisfied manner; "he complacently lived out his life as a village school teacher"


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