sense of complacency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandcomplacency
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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complacency
noun[U]
uk/kəmˈpleɪ.sən.si/us/kəmˈpleɪ.sən.si/
a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from ...
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(Definition ofsenseandcomplacencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I hope there is nosenseofcomplacencyabout the situation.
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I do not quote these figures in anysenseofcomplacencywhatever.
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One should not be lulled into anysenseofcomplacency.
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I have to set this against the national background, while not importing for one moment anysenseofcomplacency.
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However, here, too, we must be on our guard against anysenseofcomplacency.
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Much of our problem lies in the lack of aggressive selling by our own industrial concerns, often lack of imagination and asenseofcomplacency.
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I do not in any way say this with asenseofcomplacency.
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I am not saying this in anysenseofcomplacency.
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Thesenseofcomplacencyprobably stems from the fact that, although the quantity of landings this year has substantially decreased, prices have increased.
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That reply displays an unwarrantedsenseofcomplacency.
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It will be absolutely wrong if any of us develop asenseofcomplacencyjust because of that.
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That is not a situation that we can possibly regard with anysenseofcomplacency.
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I must warn him that there was asenseofcomplacencyin his last few sentences.
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I do not recount these things with anysenseofcomplacency.
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Previous experience may have bred asenseofcomplacency.
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If anyone was inclined to be lulled into asenseofcomplacency, that complacency has been destroyed.
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He spoke with asenseofcomplacencywhich shocked all of us on this side.
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I say that not to indicate anysenseofcomplacencybut to set the facts in context, which needs to be done.
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I do not want to suggest anysenseofcomplacency.
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