All 7 Uses of
sufficient
in
Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Her income was only sufficient for the family support, and she needed the lodging money for...
Chpt 5 *sufficient = adequate
- But never mind, it was sufficient unto itself, the grand occasion had moved on an ascending scale from the start, and was a noble and memorable success.†
Chpt 6sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Sufficiently bitter thinkings they were.†
Chpt 10sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Angelo thought he was a sufficiently nice young man; Luigi reserved his decision.†
Chpt 11
- It was the first attention which Wilson had ever received at the hands of any party; it was a sufficiently humble one, but it was a recognition of his debut into the town's life and activities at last; it was a step upward, and he was deeply gratified.†
Chpt 13
- They rightly claimed that "Tom" was lawfully their property and had been so for eight years; that they had already lost sufficiently in being deprived of his services during that long period, and ought not to be required to add anything to that loss; that if he had been delivered up to them in the first place, they would have sold him and he could not have murdered Judge Driscoll; therefore it was not that he had really committed the murder, the guilt lay with the erroneous inventory.†
Chpt Cncl.
- I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it—a most embarrassing circumstance.†
Chpt A.N.