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 Hichens, Robert Smythe
She seems to have been largely unconscious of her declension; self-occupied and self-contented, she scarcely noticed His absence; she was resting, resting alone,—never asking where He had gone, or how He was employed.
From Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon by Taylor, James Hudson
I watch, half sadly, half self-contented, the red coats scattered like sparks of fire over hill and dale, and turn slowly homeward, to visit my old women.
From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles
He looked from one to the other with a smile—a careless, reckless, self-contented smile.
From In Kings' Byways by Weyman, Stanley John
