(n.) The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.
Example Sentences:
(1) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(2) Such margins would be enough to put the first female president in the White House, but Democrats are guarding against complacency.
(3) He continued: "There's quite a lot of complacency going on and self-delusion going on.
(4) This posture of racially tinged complacency underlies most of the frequent backlashes endured by western feminists.
(5) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(6) "One [of the dangers] is complacency, generated by a few quarters of good economic data.
(7) And if he wins substantially, it is quite possible that he will feel comfortable and complacent and focus again on his nationalist agenda rather than the economy.” At the standing bar, Tani, a striking figure in his dark-blue kimono and a trilby, puts down his drink, pauses, and recalls the time he spent working abroad.
(8) His approach, however, will be challenged by Labour, which this week accused the chancellor of "breathtaking complacency".
(9) But we shouldn’t be complacent – less than half of GCSE students are taking a foreign language, and more need to carry their languages forward into their careers and lives for the UK to really profit on the world stage - both culturally and economically.
(10) Perhaps it was a little bit of complacency, a sense that their mere presence on the pitch would be sufficient to beat Newcastle, but collectively they rarely matched Klopp’s dynamism in the technical area.
(11) The barrier to Rio is high and Pavey is not complacent: to ensure automatic qualification she will have to finish first in the trials and reach the 10,000m Olympic qualifying standard of 32min 15sec.
(12) But let's abandon any complacency that such injustice could not happen again.
(13) Applications and limitations of the findings to the problem of complacency in automated systems are discussed.
(14) The director of public prosecutions issued a timely warning against complacency this week.
(15) A recent survey of 1,002 people in Wales has supported these earlier findings, but found additionally that discriminatory and complacent attitudes on AIDS or towards people with the 'AIDS virus' are held by a significant proportion of the population.
(16) Mike Penning, the road safety minister, said: "I am not complacent about road safety even though Britain has some of the safest roads in the world.
(17) Meanwhile, an influential cross-party Westminster committee of MPs and peers has accused the UK government's national security council of complacency for failing to carry out any assessment about the impact Scotland's independence would have on the UK's defence and the future of Trident.
(18) He wrote on Twitter on Saturday that complacency had allowed racism to prevail and reiterated those comments in a column for the Sun on Sunday.
(19) "But even if domestic violence remains a priority for the Crown Prosecution Service, there remains the wider issue of complacency."
(20) That is in large part why Alistair Darling, the former Labour chancellor and chairman of the cross-party pro-UK campaign Better Together, warned in a Guardian interview last week that complacency was his campaign's greatest enemy.
Unaware
Definition:
(a.) Not aware; not noticing; giving no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.
(adv.) Unawares.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subjects are unaware of the mode of examination.
(2) Persons responsible for animals may be unaware of the potential hazard or lack good judgment in the use of these chemicals.
(3) In many cases mental health professionals consulted by a number of the children when they were using drugs were likewise unaware of the marijuana abuse.
(4) While RT is regarded as a major treatment innovation in psychiatry, nonpsychiatrists are reluctant or unaware of the uses of antipsychotic medication as it pertains to RT.
(5) Office interrogation of the AICDs revealed 12 of the 20 patients (60%) had received AICD discharges, with 5 of these 12 patients unaware of this occurring.
(6) But he notably did not say, as he as done in previous comments about the affair, that he accepted his PR chief's assurances that he had been unaware of hacking during his editorship of the tabloid.
(7) Two observers, unaware of each other's findings and of the diagnosis, examined red cells in the urine of 109 patients by phase-contrast microscopy.
(8) The specific operative technique was randomly assigned to the patient immediately prior to surgery, and the patient was unaware of the particular technique used.
(9) The transplant centers using these kidneys were unaware of the status of the kidney they received, that is, whether it was from a pretreated or a control group.
(10) And there are countless white Britons who are unaware of the histories that bind us all together.
(11) Students were focused on the evaluation of their technical skills and were unaware of the evaluation of their interaction skills.
(12) Other reviewers, unaware of the pathologic results, surveyed the clinical data, and results were combined for analysis.
(13) Unarmed and unaware of the horror that was about to be unleashed on the island, Berntsen succeeded in protecting his 10-year-old son but could do nothing to save himself.
(14) Moreover, physicians were previously unaware of the relevant susceptibility test results in 49% of the alerts.
(15) They seem to be unaware of the plight of this particular group of British savers.
(16) Calibrated raters were unaware of group affiliation of products.
(17) Because we were of a belief that a lot of their members were unaware of this August time period, we did run an information campaign this past year,” he says.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palmer was unaware the Coalition's Direct Action bill was before the Senate You are very naïve when it comes to politics, my girl Figuring out how Palmer envisages this could ever eventuate is one aim as we sit down the next morning for an interview in the resort’s “Titanic II room”, adjacent to the resort’s foyer, pool room and empty breakfast bar.
(19) The former bus inspector was described by the judge as a "foot soldier" who was unaware the target was blowing aircraft out of the sky.
(20) He repeatedly argued that his south London upbringing meant he was rude to people who were rude to him and said Jones needed to “get over it”, although he said that he was unaware of his colleague’s history of illness.