— complacently , adv.
/keuhm play"seuhnt/ , adj.
1. pleased, esp. with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
2. pleasant; complaisant.
[ 1650-60; complacent- (s. of complacens, prp. of complacere to take the fancy of, please, equiv. to com- COM- + placere to PLEASE ]
Syn. 1. smug, unbothered, untroubled.