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complacent with vs complacent about

Both "complacent with" and "complacent about" are commonly used in English, but they are used in different contexts. "Complacent with" is used when referring to being satisfied with a particular situation or achievement, while "complacent about" is used when referring to being unconcerned or indifferent about a potential danger or problem.

Last updated: March 23, 2024 • 1100 views

complacent with

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when referring to being satisfied with a particular situation or achievement.

Use "complacent with" when expressing satisfaction with a specific situation or achievement, such as being complacent with one's current job.

Examples:

  • She was complacent with her performance in the exam.
  • He seemed complacent with his team's progress.
  • They were complacent with their financial situation.
  • And that's why you cannot be complacent with your support.
  • People used to do this all the time before we got complacent with cloned beef and prepackaged dinners.
  • At best, in many instances, their behaviour has been complacent with regard to individual property rights; at worst they have been downright dismissive.
  • We have become complacent with some old-world charm.
  • You had to become self-complacent with that woman or did you want to show off
  • Secondly, we need to draw on the lessons offered to us by complacent policies with the enemies of freedom, from Belarus to Cuba and with the Mediterranean countries in between.
  • So why has the Commission been so complacent in dealing with this hugely important matter?
  • I'm nothing but a philistine Swiss bourgeois complacent coward.
  • The role of complacent husband I find distasteful.
  • It only happened because I became complacent.
  • But no government can afford to be complacent.
  • I'm tired of being complacent.
  • I know what happens in a mechanized society when mankind gets a little too complacent.
  • Vega has grown complacent, lazy.
  • Father, we are hardly complacent.
  • What I wouldn't give to be a complacent married couple right now.
  • Our professors have become so complacent.
  • You can't get complacent about this.
  • It's human to get passionate about something and then get complacent.
  • I thought Dad's paper was too complacent.

Alternatives:

  • satisfied with
  • content with
  • happy with
  • pleased with
  • at ease with

complacent about

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when referring to being unconcerned or indifferent about a potential danger or problem.

Use "complacent about" when expressing indifference or lack of concern towards a potential danger or problem, such as being complacent about climate change.

Examples:

  • She was complacent about the risks involved.
  • He seemed complacent about the company's financial troubles.
  • They were complacent about the security of their data.
  • You can't get complacent about this.
  • You're becoming complacent about me.
  • The European Parliament should not be complacent about its own electoral methods.
  • However, no one can afford to be complacent about the outcome of the Irish referendum.
  • Stops my student getting too complacent about the nature of time.
  • Because, to be blunt, the last time you became complacent about your existence, it turned out rather badly.
  • I am not complacent about it, but it is a fact.
  • We cannot be complacent about the consequences that these negotiations are having and will have on the people of South Africa.
  • We have to answer to the public on the legislation that we produce in Parliament, and we cannot afford to be complacent about risks to children's health.
  • I would not, if I were you, be too complacent about the summit you had in Lisbon last week either because, for once, the national parliaments will have their say.
  • I cannot believe that this is in the interest of Parliament, but I would like the Commission's reassurance that it is not complacent about this democratic deficit.
  • Madam President, we should not be complacent about our work in this area and should not look down on the United States.
  • Because VAT is an easy and concealed way to collect taxes, it may make the government complacent about future spending overruns or the introduction of new social benefits;
  • That does not mean either that I consider the collaboration to be perfect or that I feel in the least bit complacent about what we could do differently, and even better, than we are at the moment.
  • I take issue with my colleague there from England, who seems quite complacent about this, and I do trust that the Commission does not share this complacency, that frankly it does not matter very much.
  • The report tries to be neither unduly alarmist, nor too complacent about the situation of pension systems.
  • I fully agree that we cannot be complacent about the supervisory challenges that are presented by increasingly complex financial products and off-balance sheet vehicles.
  • We have a good law and the saying "if a thing ain' t broken, don' t fix it; but do not be complacent about it either" applies here.
  • I don't see that the Irish presidency has all that much to be complacent about.
  • I am not complacent about it at all, but I am realistic about exactly where we are.

Alternatives:

  • indifferent about
  • unconcerned about
  • apathetic about
  • nonchalant about
  • careless about

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