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
Often Renfrew had heard Claire curse the smiling and self-contented Londoners who thronged the stalls of her theatre.
From Bye-Ways by Robert Smythe Hichens
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 C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
A self-contented man is the hardened swelling on the breast of society.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein
But there he sat, plump on the stool, looking as self-contented as if butter would not melt in his mouth.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
