All 12 Uses of
sufficient
in
Sons and Lovers
- Morel, feeling sufficiently disagreeable to resist temptation, trudged along under the dripping trees that overhung the park wall, and down the mud of Greenhill Lane.†
Chpt 1.2sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- When he was sufficiently sure of his balance, he went across to her, swayed, caught hold of the back of her rocking-chair, almost tipping her out; then leaning forward over her, and swaying as he spoke, he said, in a tone of wondering concern: "Did it catch thee?"†
Chpt 1.2
- And the money was just sufficient.
Chpt 1.3 *sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- "It's the—it's the—" He wanted to say "handwriting", but his wits would no longer work even sufficiently to supply him with the word.†
Chpt 1.5sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Miriam was often sufficiently lofty to turn it.†
Chpt 2.7
- You've asked her to tea, it's quite sufficient.†
Chpt 2.8sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Why did she make him feel as if he were uncertain of himself, insecure, an indefinite thing, as if he had not sufficient sheathing to prevent the night and the space breaking into him?†
Chpt 2.8
- Seeing him so, she loved him; he seemed so simple and sufficient to himself.†
Chpt 2.9
- And that is sufficient?†
Chpt 2.9
- The fishermen were perhaps sufficiently out of sight.†
Chpt 2.12sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- He hated her sufficiently to murder her.†
Chpt 2.12
- And still it was some time before he had sufficiently pulled himself together to stir; then gradually he got up.†
Chpt 2.13