On the contrary, he contemplated them with self-complacence as the fruits of his own teaching and example, and as indications that the lad would develop into a creditable chief of the Castle Goring Shelleys.
It would be tedious to recollect the many individuals I saw here, but I cannot omit a fat figure, well drest in the French fashion, who was received with extraordinary complacenceby the emperor, and whom I imagined to be Lewis XIV.
We answered we should not fail in any complacence which was usual to others; upon which our host replied he would immediately send porters to conduct us.
They are fully convinced that the English all eat with their knives, and I have often heard this discussed with much self-complacence by those who usually shared the labours of the repast between a fork and their fingers.
He listens with a sort of self-sufficient complacence which tells you he does not consider your assertions as any thing more than the exaggerations of national vanity, but that his politeness does not allow him to contradict you.
At this point, the self-complacence bred of his contempt for Messrs.
Self-complacence over the concealed destroys its concealment.
Mr. Lorimer, roused out of allcomplacence and casting dainty phraseology to the winds.
Avery sometimes wondered if Jeanie's death had pierced the armour of his self-complacence at any point.
They therefore assign not only a treacherous and unsure ground of their pleasurable living, but also one in all respects despicable and little, if the escaping of evils be the matter of their complacence and last good.
She was prepared to view purple moustaches with a more lenient eye now, and she contemplated a business run on good lines with more complacence than she permitted to appear.
Struggling with his feelings of offended pride, tempered by a prudent degree of apprehension, the Emperor endeavoured to receive with complacence a homage tendered in mockery.
I myself, Pierre Legros, will see that this wolf in the clothes of the sheep will go from this apartment with complacence the most profound.
He was beginning to recover his balance, and there was even a hint of his customary complacence audible in his voice as he made the declaration.
With complacence he reflected that if every man in the mess envied him, probably every woman in the station would have gladly changed places with her.
It was no time for idle wonder at the complacence of the skipper; I flew to the break and threw my strength into the seaman's task.
I told them of Buhot, and how oddly he had shown his complacence to his escaped prisoner in the tavern of the Duke of Burgundy's Head.
If he could have looked into my mind, as I stood there in an attitude of patient attention, I think even his self-complacence would have been put out of countenance.
My common sense tells me I can't hope to break through that shell of self-complacence you've been cased in by your family and your associates.
The harmony vital to national unity is not merely a mutualcomplacence of the members,--at its root is a habitual, disciplined obedience to the central authority, which in a democracy is the orderly expressed will of the majority.
Oh, the naive complacence of the naivest sex the Lord ever made!
A steady snore from the interior of the Duke's chamber explained his complacence under that uncanny tampering with his approaches.
To do him justice, Hanbury's complacence was not entirely due to spirituous longings, but to a homesick instinct aroused by the Cockney accent of the vulgar stranger.
His complacence was a little marred by uncertainty whether she had observed him or not, but from the quick turn of her head as she crossed the pavement he was rather inclined to think that she had.
Friendship may stand for that peaceful complacence which you feel towards all well-behaved people who wear clean collars and use tolerable grammar.
But sundry of these well-behaved people will mistake your civility and complacence for a recognition of special affinity, and proceed at once to frame an alliance offensive and defensive while the sun and the moon shall endure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "complacence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: conceit; consequence; smugness
