adv. [f. COMPLACENT + -LY2.] In a complacent manner; with pleasure or satisfaction: esp. with self-satisfaction.
1876. J. Scott, Vis. Paris, 49. He pointed to his treasures with silent looks that rested complacently on them.
1862. Ruskin, Munera P. (1880), 48. We may … call ourselves, complacently, a rich country.
1868. E. Edwards, Raleigh, I. ix. 131. A bishop, and unlikely to look complacently on plots for the alienation of episcopal manors.
