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Перевод: complacent
[прилагательное] самодовольный; удовлетворенный; благодушный
Тезаурус:
- Alex Murphy recently suggested this situation had arisen because of the sterility of the Australian game, but there are less complacent views.
- "We were far too complacent last year and knew if we under-performed against a team like Forest we would have been totally thrashed," Mr Ferguson said.
- But the Welsh Office and its "complacent attitude" was the main target of the select committee of Welsh affairs in its report on the outbreak.
- The hospital staff I spoke to were almost without exception complacent on the subject of interpreters.
- For by the 1950s and 1960s, with the connivance of money-grubbing speculators and complacent politicians, their theories had become architectural orthodoxy.
- It is a complacent researcher indeed who does not look back on the research findings and wish that some things had been done better.
- And throughout Kenner's book "English" is taken to imply arrogant obtuseness, complacent inertia, and effeminate enervation.
- Mr John Prescott, the shadow Transport Secretary, said the Department of Transport "seems as complacent as ever about its security responsibilities".
- A popular television series, "Yes, Minister" (later "Yes, Prime Minister") openly parodied the consensual, complacent ways of the permanent secretaries and under-secretaries.
- Nobody with the job of managing the nation's principal safety agency could be complacent.
- It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions, such as the cephalosporin antibiotics, and has not taken on enough risky new ventures.
- I did all the usual stuff - I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter, but while I was walking out of the tube station, I thought to myself, "you complacent bitch"" you know.
- Of course, since the early Eighties, Romania have demonstrated periodically that they are capable of upsetting complacent opponents with a committed, well organised pack, allied to the ability to kick long-range goals.
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