Complacency vs Supercilious - What's the difference?
complacency | supercilious |
A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.
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An instance of self-satisfaction.
Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
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As a noun complacency
is a feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.As an adjective supercilious is
arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.complacency
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* complacenceNoun
(complacencies)- There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency , more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more. When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
- Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency , if they discover none of the like in themselves.
supercilious
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Adjective
(en adjective)British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious , contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
- Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.