A contented smile. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : These things content me. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : His content was threatened. From Dictionary.com.
My life fell into a certain contented pattern, but the thought of the box still haunted me. From Wordnik.com. [On Desperate Seas « A Fly in Amber] Reference
We sat in contented silence for a fair bit before we both realized we had to get back to the Vanderbilt. From Wordnik.com. [One Night in Nashville] Reference
It's about these mentally limited brothers who lived in contented squalor on a cow farm in upstate New York. From Wordnik.com. [Watched Brother's Keeper This Weekend] Reference
Thomas is currently a "contented" singleton, but that's rather through circumstance than choice. From Wordnik.com. [Gareth Thomas: the interview] Reference
Lauren Christine is newly married, and her blog shows the kind of contented busy-ness that I am talking about. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
With a kind of contented impatience, and as time went by, the impatience waxed and the contentment waned. From Wordnik.com. [Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories] Reference
Mr. WATSON: I was fairly contented with what I had. From Wordnik.com. [Doc Watson: An Old-Time Folk Musician With Soul] Reference
"That's all right, then," came the contented answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
My contented companion and I can only smile and agree. From Wordnik.com. [Restaurant review: Koffmann's] Reference
She contented herself with looking at the front of her dress. From Wordnik.com. [Glissando] Reference
Card had contented himself with seeing that the moving parts moved. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Why Card's Star Is On The Rise] Reference
His contented sigh deepens into a moan as my tongue snakes down, around. From Wordnik.com. [Him] Reference
That sound, if nothing else, contented her through many lonely nights. From Wordnik.com. [Cock Sculpting] Reference
Bear sound asleep with a contented smile on his face, dreaming of the party!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Bear at Work and at Play] Reference
Measures Satisfaction: Most HMOs try to figure out how contented their members are. From Wordnik.com. [Does Your Hmo Stack Up?] Reference
"We have plenty of time," says Terry Anderson, contented if not quite free at last. From Wordnik.com. ['I Know I'll Get Through This'] Reference
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Happiness] Reference
I believe in my heart that you two will be contented with just yourself and the other. From Wordnik.com. ["A Wedding Feast" (a lost parable of Jesus)] Reference
Finally, he contented himself to listening to the radio, which the man had also left on. From Wordnik.com. [Scattering like light] Reference
This contented pair stand ramrod straight against a backdrop of genetically altered corn. From Wordnik.com. [Truth, Beauty And The Double Helix] Reference
The green standard of care is not contented with the mere maintenance of chronic disease. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? (Part III)] Reference
"Be it little or much, hold thee contented, that thou hear not the reproach of thy house.". From Wordnik.com. [Deadly lure of the US leaves trail of tears across two continents] Reference
Perhaps the biggest difference in today's Dizzee is that he seems so contented and outgoing. From Wordnik.com. [Dizzee Rascal: Fight to the top] Reference
No one hangs up his napkin in that style; they are contented with placing it on their knees. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
I have been stopped short by beauty every day, and I have fallen asleep contented every night. From Wordnik.com. [Kent Hayden, M.Div.: Food and Faith: Agriculture as a Theological Act] Reference
Much time passed, and Amiaivel contented himself with talking and singing to his toad maidens. From Wordnik.com. [Amiaivel] Reference
HMO members know if they're contented with their doctors and their ability to get appointments. From Wordnik.com. [The Numbers Racket] Reference
Its countries are now all contented, bourgeois social democracies with stable democratic systems. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Past, Asia's Future] Reference
Bartiromo dreamed of becoming a correspondent, but contented herself with the life of a field producer. From Wordnik.com. [Hype Is Hip On Cnbc] Reference
Clinton is plenty popular, and surveys show the country is more contented than at any time in 30 years. From Wordnik.com. [Coping With A Quiet Agenda] Reference
Photographs released yesterday of the prime minister with his new daughter show him looking supremely contented. From Wordnik.com. [Camerons release first pictures of newborn daughter Florence] Reference
The breeze is pleasant to him, or so it seems, his little face pulled together in a sleepy, contented expression. From Wordnik.com. [Star Anise] Reference
And so I just - I want to meet with those who want to meet and I'm going to be contented and satisfied with that. From Wordnik.com. [After Fall, Evangelical Leader Starts From Scratch] Reference
I contented myself with the last and created, under this novel's influence, a pasta dish with Gorgonzola and plums. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Hellenga's "Snakewoman of Little Egypt," reviewed by Carolyn See] Reference
Isaac Hawkins Browne wealthy, worldly, an MP (who never made a speech), and, as far as one can judge, a contented man. From Wordnik.com. ['The Oxford Book of Parodies'] Reference
Indeed, a contented if tired calm consumes the town from the last day of finals to the night before the students return. From Wordnik.com. [Meeting Sandra] Reference
We have spoken above of the necessity of relinquishing the prerogative of our race, and being contented with recipient silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
Spend an hour with Mr. Jeffreys at a restaurant a short walk from his Stuyvesant Town apartment, and you'll find a contented man. From Wordnik.com. [A Man of Diversity, With Music to Match] Reference
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