It is so easy to get a reputation for kindness by being too complacent in giving way to requests for morphia.

It is not a thing to be complacent about; still less does it justify you in saying to the simple person who prefers the direct course that the world is getting lazy and decadent and is always trying to save itself trouble.

The gentleman was by no means so complacent as Sir John, and asked some very disagreeable questions.

The eye enraptur'd roves o'er woods and dells, Or dwells complacent on the numerous signs Of cultivated life.

That was why he was so complacent over the whole affair.

He was profoundly moved, and Ajax appeared less solidly complacent than usual.