Vocabulary
Complacency
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one’s achievements.
Urdu meaning
اخلاق، اطمینان، خود تسکینی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Maybe a little daylight in the darker recesses of the state will help jolt a few civil servants out of their complacency.
- Where once ideals like civil liberties and independent institutions found spirited champions willing to fight for them, one now sees a complacency that too often resembles complete surrender.
- The ruling dispensation should get out of the complacency trap.
- Such reports are an indictment of a relief system undermined by inef ficiency, complacency and a dearth of oversight.
- Yet complacency will not buy the state or the public peace.
Synonyms
smugness, self-satisfaction, self-approval, self-approbation, self-admiration, self-congratulation
Curator example
“the figures are better, but there are no grounds for complacency”
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