self-complacency

noun

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  1. complacency
  2. egoism
  3. self-satisfaction
  4. egotism
  5. vainglory
  6. vanity
  7. hubris
  8. complacence
Noun
  • Memories of 2016—and Hillary Clinton losing despite having a lead in the polls—make complacency among supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris impossible.
    Christine Adams / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Learning From Crypto's Experience Crypto's turbulent history provides a road map of pitfalls to avoid: Avoid complacency: Recognize that public trust must be earned and maintained through consistent action and communication.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of complacency
Noun
  • Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information, Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
Definition of egoism
Noun
  • Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Nothing was off-limits in Mad, a newsstand stalwart that would reach peak annual sales in the 1970s of 2.5 million issues by delivering belly laughs and self-satisfaction to America’s class clowns through cartoons, parodies, sarcastic characters and an unending stream of gross-out gags.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Definition of self-satisfaction
Noun
  • But by trying to avoid how Trump’s past reflects his current approach to politics—his zero-sum relationship to power, his pettiness and egotism—while simultaneously winking at viewers’ knowledge of him, the film lands itself in a trap.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • This connects to how the Puberty Alarm cartoon substitutes for the egotism some people never outgrow — the self-justification featured in groomer films such as Eighth Grade and Love, Simon and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn.
    Armond White, National Review, 14 June 2024
Definition of egotism
Noun
  • The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
Definition of vainglory
Noun
  • Elsewhere is a bar/parlor room, as well as an inviting primary suite that comes complete with a Juliette balcony, a walk-in closet, and a luxe bath flaunting dual vanities and a large shower.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Grand suites have separate in-room dining tables and some even have bathtubs and dual-sink stone vanities.
    Nicole Trilivas, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of vanity
Noun
  • Though the American market proved more expensive and bureaucratic than some Chinese businesses expected, says Harvey, problems were also caused by the hubris of facility owners, some of whom found themselves in over their heads.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The hubris in refusing to change course in the face of mounting evidence will continue the suffering of ordinary North Koreans and likely drag the United States into nuclear war.
    Christine Ahn, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of hubris
Noun
  • But surely there must be a place for civil disobedience and protest that is sufficiently disruptive to rouse people from complacence.
    Yochai Benkler, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2012
  • The campaign used Ivancie’s complacence.
    oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
Definition of complacence
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