[
UK
/kəntˈɛntɪdli/
]
[ US /kənˈtɛntədɫi/ ]
[ US /kənˈtɛntədɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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with equanimity
`I bought it,' she said contentedly
How To Use contentedly In A Sentence
- At the end, instead of a fat lady singing, we get a thinner but happier Watt contentedly crooning about how great it is to be alive.
- He and his wife Khadija strode contentedly forward in spite of their advanced years, and when he saw the lepidopteral blessing that had descended on the toy merchant, Muhammad Din reached out and grasped him by the hand. The Satanic Verses
- The screen extended from the central keyboards before the seats to well near the ceiling of the room, and it hummed contentedly with electric life.
- When I arrived, Schwarzenegger, in a blue suit and cowboy boots emblazoned with the California state seal, was contentedly puffing a stogie. The California Experiment
- They had brought down the old walnut writing desk from the loft and had polished it until it gleamed contentedly.
- The chef also goes with scallops, and as we both eat contentedly, classical music wafts softly throughout the well-appointed room.
- He'll have my luck and your looks," he said, turning to Fancy still in her lying-in bed, and she'd laughed contentedly. PAINT THE WIND
- But Rose-Marie's ears were already deaf to all things save self-congratulation; for sitting in the middle of the highway, playing contentedly with the dust and some faded buttercups, was a white-pinafored baby with a mop of tow-coloured hair tied over one temple with a pale-blue ribbon.
- Some sighed contentedly at the sight of such bliss, the perfect pairing of two people who loved each other.
- I pedal contentedly along in the sunshine, passing almond tree groves with white blossom and crossing the ancient arched bridges that link one hillside from the next. Times, Sunday Times