All 8 Uses of
sufficient
in
Washington Square
- He was very witty, and he passed in the best society of New York for a man of the world—which, indeed, he was, in a very sufficient degree.†
Chpt 1 *
- Even at the age of twentyseven Austin Sloper had made his mark sufficiently to mitigate the anomaly of his having been chosen among a dozen suitors by a young woman of high fashion, who had ten thousand dollars of income and the most charming eyes in the island of Manhattan.†
Chpt 1
- The fortune she would inherit struck him as a very sufficient provision for two reasonable persons, and if a penniless swain who could give a good account of himself should enter the lists, he should be judged quite upon his personal merits.†
Chpt 7
- Morris presented himself with a countenance sufficiently serene—he appeared to have forgotten the "insult" for which he had solicited Catherine's sympathy two evenings before, and Dr. Sloper lost no time in letting him know that he had been prepared for his visit.†
Chpt 12
- But, as he said, he had his impression; it seemed to him sufficient, and he had no wish to modify it.†
Chpt 13
- It was characteristic of Mrs. Penniman that she related this fact, not in the least out of malignity to Catherine, whom she very sufficiently pitied, but simply from a natural disposition to embellish any subject that she touched.†
Chpt 30
- "She is amply provided for from her mother's side," the document ran, "never having spent more than a fraction of her income from this source; so that her fortune is already more than sufficient to attract those unscrupulous adventurers whom she has given me reason to believe that she persists in regarding as an interesting class."†
Chpt 33
- I don't suppose he is sufficiently plodding, and that, after all, is what succeeds in this world."†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)