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Definition of "self-content" []

  • Satisfied with oneself; complacent. (adjective)
  • Self-contentment. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "self-content" in a sentence
  • "Clearly she would have been self-content to promote the disappearance of certain tiresome people in the same expeditious way.2"
  • "The simplest way of treating him was just to let him talk — for it pleased him, and could do no harm — and then to recover self-content by saying what a fool he was when out of hearing."
  • "She thought very little of his large, free brag, of his patronizing manner, and fine self-content, reference of everything to his own standard, beauty too feminine, and instead of female gentleness, highly cultivated waywardness."