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self-content

[self-kuhn-tent, self-] / ˈsɛlf kənˈtɛnt, ˌsɛlf- /




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Cricket is linked with the Golden Age of English power and self-content, the idyll that supposedly existed before the First World War.

From Newsweek

I was really angry with O'Brien by that time, with his air of omniscience, superiority, and self-content, as if he were talking to a child or someone very credulous and weak-minded.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

His only expression was that of haughty self-content; but there was no real pride in his bearing, and no reserve.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

There is little food for self-content when all that is best and worst comes out; but there is much food for thought.

From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir

He had hoped to provoke from the plaisant some further expression of self-content in his plans for the future, but the other had become guarded.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart




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