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
Carmichael was much tried by the baser of his fellow-students, especially a certain class of smug, self-contented, unctuous men, who neither had endured hardship to get to college, nor did any work at college.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
The home in Camberwell into which the boy Robert was born reflected the serene, harmonious, self-contented character of his parents.
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
In fact, he looked quite a hollow fellow, and apparently a selfish and self-contented one.
From My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan
So nothing was done, and the Republic, torn by divided interests and with its ruling classes lapped in self-contented comfort and luxury, was a helpless prey that seemed to invite spoliation.
From History of Holland by George Edmundson
