All 27 Uses of
content
in
Babbitt
- A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- The mattresses were firm but not hard, triumphant modern mattresses which had cost a great deal of money; the hot-water radiator was of exactly the proper scientific surface for the cubic contents of the room.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- Now, as he calculated the cost of repapering the Styles house, he was restless again, discontented about nothing and everything, ashamed of his discontentment, and lonely for the fairy girl.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Now, as he calculated the cost of repapering the Styles house, he was restless again, discontented about nothing and everything, ashamed of his discontentment, and lonely for the fairy girl.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- The hard briskness of the phonograph contented them; their store of jazz records made them feel wealthy and cultured; and all they knew of creating music was the nice adjustment of a bamboo needle.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- Mrs. McKelvey was red-haired, creamy, discontented, exquisite, rude, and honest.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- But Babbitt—the curst discontent was torturing him again, and heavily, in the impersonal darkness, he pondered, "I don't—We're all so flip and think we're so smart.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- He had retrograded to a shamefaced contentment.†
Chpt 13 (definition 1) *
- Like many of the cocksure young men who forage about cities in apparent contentment and who express their cynicism in supercilious slang, Escott was shy and lonely.†
Chpt 17 (definition 1)
- There it was again: discontent with the good common ways.†
Chpt 23 (definition 1)
- He waited contentedly, not trying to peep at her, while she filed his nails and the barber shaved him and smeared on his burning cheeks all the interesting mixtures which the pleasant minds of barbers have devised through the revolving ages.†
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
- Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.†
Chpt 25 (definition 1)
- After supper Joe proposed a game of stud-poker but Babbitt refused with brevity, and Joe contentedly went to bed at eight.†
Chpt 25 (definition 1)
- In an intolerable sweetness, a contentment so deep that he was wistfully discontented, he saw magnolias by moonlight and heard plantation darkies crooning to the banjo.†
Chpt 28 (definition 1)
- In an intolerable sweetness, a contentment so deep that he was wistfully discontented, he saw magnolias by moonlight and heard plantation darkies crooning to the banjo.†
Chpt 28 (definition 1)
- The contentment of companionship was gone, and he was restless with desire to touch her hand.†
Chpt 28 (definition 1)
- He was absorbed by a rapture in which all fear and doubting were smoothed away; and when he reached home, at dawn, the rapture had mellowed to contentment serene and full of memories.†
Chpt 28 (definition 1)
- A little grimly he perceived that this had been his last despairing fling before the paralyzed contentment of middle-age.†
Chpt 33 (definition 1)
- He was worried lest during his late discontent he had imperiled his salvation.†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Course—competition—brings out the best—survival of the fittest—but—But I mean: Take all these fellows we know, the kind right here in the club now, that seem to be perfectly content with their home-life and their businesses, and that boost Zenith and the Chamber of Commerce and holler for a million population.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- She was always ready to go skating, walking; always content to hear his discourses on the great things he was going to do, the distressed poor whom he would defend against the Unjust Rich, the speeches he would make at Banquets, the inexactitudes of popular thought which he would correct.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- He was content and childish.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2) *
- They strolled abreast, old friends and well content.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- Actually, the content of his theology was that there was a supreme being who had tried to make us perfect, but presumably had failed; that if one was a Good Man he would go to a place called Heaven (Babbitt unconsciously pictured it as rather like an excellent hotel with a private garden), but if one was a Bad Man, that is, if he murdered or committed burglary or used cocaine or had mistresses or sold non-existent real estate, he would be punished.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- Among the marchers, beside a bulky young workman, was Seneca Doane, smiling, content.†
Chpt 27 (definition 2)
- She who had seemed well content to wait for him at her flat had begun to hint with melancholy smiles that he must think but little of her if he never introduced her to his friends, if he was unwilling to be seen with her except at the movies.†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- He indignantly told the Tempter that he was content to do things in the good old fashioned way.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.