self-contented
Example Sentences
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The writing can’t get far enough out in front of the Holocaust not to drown in a self-contented sense of romance.
From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2020
But P�khtin was refreshing, self-contented, and gaily amiable, as always.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Oh, thou Casual Observer, what a dull, gross, self-contented clod art thou, who, having eyes and ears, art blind and deaf to aught but things as concrete as—thyself!
From The Amateur Gentleman by Farnol, Jeffery
Often Renfrew had heard Claire curse the smiling and self-contented Londoners who thronged the stalls of her theatre.
From Bye-Ways by Hichens, Robert Smythe
An elevation of five thousand feet gives it a pleasant June weather, but life moves with a drowsy, self-contented air.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson
