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self-contented
adjective as in complacent
adjective as in smug
Example Sentences
The writing can’t get far enough out in front of the Holocaust not to drown in a self-contented sense of romance.
The man was so prosperous, so self-contented, so conscious of his own merit and success.
He looked from one to the other with a smile; a careless, self-contented smile.
Harry he had seen, and Harry had been happy, in high spirits, quite self-contented, until that untoward telegram eclipsed his gaiety.
Mrs. Clinton was at the door, and Joan enveloped her in an ardent embrace, which was interrupted by the appearance of the Squire, big and burly, with a grizzled beard and a look of self-contented authority.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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