complacently

[ kuhm-pley-suhnt-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a pleased or self-satisfied way, often without awareness of some potential danger or defect:
We are all part of the system that perpetuates these injustices, and we must not stand complacently by.
in a pleasant or compliant way:
The frog in the pot, unaware of the threat, simply sits complacently until he boils.

Instead he complacently believed that because the Federal Reserve had defeated inflation, all was well with the economy.

As it came near, it proved to be the clock, with a sail hoisted, and the Goblin sitting complacently in the stern.

And the countess-dowager fanned herself complacently, and neither she nor Maude cared for the absence of a groomsman.

"Mine are enough formed, I know," complacently glancing from her attire to Ida's plain merino, and black silk apron.

The bank nestles very complacently under its lower wing, and in the ratio of its size is a much better looking building.

To encourage himself, he complacently reverted to recent citizen records.

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