complacent

Preposition: about

• threat: We were never complacent about the threat from global terrorism.
• situation: I know I should never feel complacent about any situation during a dive.
• challenge: Despite this rapid progress, we are not complacent about the challenges ahead.
• risk: We must never be complacent about the risk of HIV.

Preposition: in

face: However the goddesses are getting complacent in the face of the skill of the ninjas.

Modifying Another Word

• dangerously: Only the dangerously complacent or naïve could assume that we have safely put the BSE crisis behind us.
• too: To be honest, I think they've become too complacent with what is, in effect, a captive audience for their products.
• rather: He was rather complacent on the subject of ( Labor ) voter turnout.
• not: Wal-Mart is not complacent about its position in fashion.
• never: Never complacent, Raven sets the standard by which the industry is measured.

Used with adjective complement

• become: We've now become complacent upon our supply of energy.
• appear: Many academics appeared complacent about the ( then ongoing ) bombing of Afghanistan, while others viewed it with cheerful approval.
• get: Don't get complacent about items in your car.
• seem: Talking about poverty and injustice in calm measured tones seems almost complacent.
• grow: We have not grown more prudent, we have grown more complacent.
• remain: There have been too many audit based scandals to remain complacent.

Modifies a noun

• attitude: He says that too many have a complacent attitude toward unemployment.
• assumption: Neither is tolerant of the complacent assumption of a right to one's own opinions.
• view: The Conservatives ' near banishment from Scottish politics gives them a less complacent view of devolution.