1 The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid, complacent.
2 Mostly it had been compounded out of vanity and complacent confidence in her own charms.
3 She revolted from the complacent ugliness of Mrs. Peniston's black walnut, from the slippery gloss of the vestibule tiles, and the mingled odour of sapolio and furniture-polish that met her at the door.
4 Kennicott had borrowed Jackson Elder's red and white English setter, a complacent dog with a waving tail of silver hair which flickered in the sunshine.
5 They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is.
6 The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.
7 Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express.
8 The Doctor, with a complacent smile, was reading aloud some manuscript explanation or statement of a theory out of that interminable Dictionary, and she was looking up at him.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE 9 He recalled his own criticisms of Tyndall of his complacent satisfaction in the cleverness of his experiments, and for his lack of philosophic insight.
10 "Here, on the other hand, it has made a great sensation," he said, with a complacent smile.
11 With the same complacent smile he told her of the ovations he had received in consequence of the act he had passed.
12 "As you please, barin," replied the complacent Selifan.
13 And with a complacent sigh he would return to the drawing room.
14 It was the sequel to his complacent reflections on his success in Petersburg.
15 Quiet and complacent, Clifford sat at the wheel of adventure: in his old black hat and tweed jacket, motionless and cautious.