Mr. Bumble wiped from his forehead the perspiration which his walk had engendered, glancedcomplacently at the cocked hat, and smiled.
We are prating about giving the right of suffrage to black male citizens, as complacently as we once gave our compassion and corn to famishing Ireland.
Yet the average of leaders not only accepts himself complacently as he is, but actually ignores the advantages of even finding out what he is, let alone trying to improve himself.
He sat complacently smoking while his resting men audibly growled about it and told each other the dire things that would take place before they would go in again.
In consideration of this fact nature apparently designed man to accept complacently his own personality and thus be content to use and develop it without being discouraged because he was not as some other man.
Mr. Briggs complacently avoided dates and age and the minuter details.
Jolly brickish of you, old man," said Morrison, complacentlyregarding the unpacking of the magic hat-box.
He has poured himself forth so complacently upon it that he can always find himself and cherish himself in it.
Granning grunted complacently and called him back as he was disappearing.
The duke received the advancescomplacently and returned propositions significant of his personal ambitions.
We complacently congratulate ourselves on our recognition of a personal God, as being the conception most suited to human sympathies, and exempt from the mystifications of Pantheism.
God loves us all, so we can look complacently on evils, 715-u.
Men call this Power Magnetism, and then complacently think that they have explained it all; and yet they have but given a new name to an unknown thing, to hide their ignorance.
A crimson bow was also tied at her neck; she complacently remarked that "pink and crimson harmonize beautifully;" and others of the party arriving at that moment, I was saved the trouble of making a polite answer.
See how complacentlythat mud takes in all you throw to it.
But just as the clay model was finished, and we were complacently admiring it, into our atelier stepped the grand antique mother, Nature.
We smoked complacently deep into that sunlit night, and thought with pleasure of the sail which was to come amongst the islands of the great lake.
But at last when he calmly led us back over our own tracks which we had made not half an hour before, and still would have gone complacently on waddling through the wilderness, we called a halt and made him face the situation.
All that I am concerned with is that, so far as we know, neither Gamaliel nor any of his tribe had ever made the slightest attempt to inquire into them, but had, without examination, complacentlytreated them as lies.
If I had gone into the army," said Jimmy complacently to himself, as he went downstairs, "I should have been a great general.
The thought that, if he did nothing, McEachern would put it down complacently to the vigilance of his detective and his own astuteness in engaging him stung Jimmy.
A perpetual smile mantles over his broad face, and complacently he pats his huge rotundity of stomach as he rolls from side to side on the barrel astride which he is seated.
He glanced at the card—smiled at himself complacently in the mirror before him, and answered in a gracious voice, “Let Milor Mountpleasant come up.
Our headlight shone upon a gray and red cloaked soldier, sitting on the gun carriage, his spurred boots dangling, his body jumping and jouncing, while quite complacently he munched on a bar of chocolate.
A guard of mature looking Landsturm complacently puffing at big German pipes were watching them shoveling away the snow.
Minnie lay back on her sofa, and looked at Miss Chubb complacently bending over her knitting.
Mrs. Errington would complacently have assumed the merit of the whole solar system.
Ned warmed to his task and Luis cuddled beside him, complacently adding his affirmative "Yep," at fitting intervals.
My cork shook itself--yawned, I was about to say, and settled down again as complacently as before.
The dandies of Grassy Ford noted complacently that his plain, gray, wrinkled suit did not compare for style and newness with their own, while they wore at their throats the latest cravats of emerald and purple loveliness.
Usial, in the door, stroked his smooth poll complacently and grinned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "complacently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
