contentedly

Adverb

Meaning

with equanimity

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Examples

JACE WAYLAND," she said. "Explain yourself." Jace was glaring at the cat. "I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabing Judas." Church rolled onto his back, purring contentedly. Cassandra Clare

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it. Eoin Colfer

The professional tends to classify and to specialize, to accept uncritically the ground rules of the environment. The ground rules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serves as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. Marshall McLuhan

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed. Alexander Pope

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying. George Orwell

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