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
Each day to this small folk's a feast of fun; Not over-witty, self-contented, Still round and round in circle-dance they whirl, As with their tails young kittens twirl.
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks
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 George Eliot
He looked from one to the other with a smile; a careless, self-contented smile.
From For the Cause by Stanley J. Weyman
He looked from one to the other with a smile—a careless, reckless, self-contented smile.
From In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman
