All 4 Uses of
content
in
The Guardian, by Nicholas Sparks
- It was a world of Pete Gandys out there, blind and lazy morons who left us vulnerable to terrorists, not only with their stupidity, but with their lack of vigilance, their fat, contented ignorance.†
Chpt 36 *contented = satisfied
- A television blared in the corner of the bar, the windows were chalky with dirt, and the air was filled with smoke that curled above the tables like the contents of a lava lamp.†
Chpt 15
- Nine months later, his back and legs scarred, he ground his mother's sleeping pills and slipped the contents into her vodka.†
Chpt 33
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Those were the moments she'd felt most content, when she finally allowed herself to believe in the impossible.†
Chpt 14 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.