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
He recognized his own personality apart from the personalities of the crowded throng through which he passed; he was a self-contented individual.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore
They were all serious and self-contented, very unglamorous.
From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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
The home in Camberwell into which the boy Robert was born reflected the serene, harmonious, self-contented character of his parents.
From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
