contentedness

Example Sentences

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The country is regularly billed as one of the happiest places on Earth, based on studies that purport to rank national contentedness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2022

Mikkelsen can, because he wears an assurance that telegraphs his contentedness with filling space without sucking the air out of the room.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2022

There’s some muted anger at the media’s fixation on her tragic family, plus a dash of vague contentedness about the joys of motherhood.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2022

Either I was approaching some new state of equanimity and contentedness or I was depressed.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021

I feel freedom for the first time in months, and an air of contentedness wanders next to me all the way home.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak