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satisfied

She grew more contented with age.

contented = satisfied

It's hard to get her to consider a change because she is so contented with the way things are.

contented = satisfied

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith -- London Guardian, July 8, 1989
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Thus momentarily we have the two things a soldier needs for contentment: good food and rest.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

contentment = satisfaction

He ate again, sighed with contentment.
David Almond -- Skellig

contentment = satisfaction

The baby slept, contented.
David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness

contented = satisfied and unworried

I was so contented and happy I felt as if I would like to sit right there without moving until I fell asleep.
Maureen Daly -- Seventeenth Summer

contented = satisfied

If the rest of his heart were to stop now, in this moment, the Admiral would die more content than any man on Earth.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

content = satisfied

Behind her the discontented heirs grumbled: He made fools of us all.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

discontented = not satisfied

(Editor's note: The prefix "dis-" in discontented means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of contented as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.)

They are a contented group, placid and good-natured, although, like any family, they bicker from time to time.
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

contented = satisfied

We were preserving Our Lady, and I was content—for the first time since I'd learned about my mother—to be doing what I was doing.
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

content = satisfied

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

content = satisfied

The most gifted among them, who might possibly become nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated.
George Orwell -- 1984

discontent = dissatisfaction

(Editor's note: The prefix "dis-" in discontent means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of content as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.)

The dawn is close at hand, and we have reason to be content with our first night's work.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

content = satisfied

No longer content to read about the brave deeds of others, he had forged himself a helmet and mounted a nag.
Tara Westover -- Educated

content = satisfied

Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death.
I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

content = satisfied

Mae surveyed it all and sighed contentedly.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

contentedly = in a satisfied manner

And even if somehow I found a way to keep him contented, yet still there were limits, for he was mortal, and not young.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

contented = satisfied

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