complacency

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complacency englannista suomeksi

  1. omahyväisyys

  1. Substantiivi

  2. mielihyvä, tyytyväisyys, itsetyytyväisyys

complacency englanniksi

  1. A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.

  2. (RQ:Spectator)

  3. (RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair) looking at Mr. George Osborne's pale interesting countenance, and those beautiful black, curling, shining whiskers, which the young gentleman himself regarded with no ordinary complacency, she thought in her little heart that in His Majesty's army, or in the wide world, there never was such a face or such a hero.

  4. (RQ:Fitzgerald Great Gatsby)

  5. An instance of self-satisfaction.

  6. Passivity as a result of contentment with the current situation.