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
That is the apostolic warning to the successful professional man,—the warning against the narrowing, self-contented result which sometimes taints even great attainments and professional distinction.
From Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Peabody, Francis Greenwood
In some cases, perhaps, it might be urged that Pepin has remained the more self-contented because he has not written everything he believed himself capable of.
From Impressions of Theophrastus Such by Eliot, George
Harry he had seen, and Harry had been happy, in high spirits, quite self-contented, until that untoward telegram eclipsed his gaiety.
From Second String by Hope, Anthony
Another sacred kiss on that white head, and Tom was away for London, with a fuller purse, and a more self-contented heart too, than he had known for many a year.
From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Kingsley, Charles
