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uncomplacent

  • a word derived from complacent.
    complacent
    adjective
    pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied.

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Now an uncomplacent 60, he knows that nothing turns off a young radical quicker than old radicals who say "When I was a boy ..."

From Time Magazine Archive

Spiritual nullity and material confusion in a society are not to be repaired by a transformation of egotism, querulous, brooding, marvelling, into egotism, active, practical, objective, not uncomplacent.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by John Morley