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good-humoured

ADJECTIVE
  1. disposed to please
    an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin

How To Use good-humoured In A Sentence

  • You, young man,” she proceeded, addressing Roland Graeme, and at once softening the ironical sharpness of her manner into good-humoured raillery, “you, who are all our male attendance, from our Lord High Chamberlain down to our least galopin, follow us to prepare our court.” The Abbot
  • But he had a mild, good-humoured, articulate side, verging on the academic, abjuring the sensational.
  • But at Allah Made Me Funny's show in London only a few atheists and a lone Jew identified themselves in response to a good-humoured request from the stage.
  • The best way to approach them therefore is to leap directly into light, good-humoured conversation and make them laugh.
  • This was the language of the English and Scottish Enlightenment: sober, unemphatic, good-humoured; a very sociable and moderate language, modern in a way that even we would recognise, and supremely rational and down-to-earth.
  • He's a wee thing roosed!" remarked Sutherland, with a good-humoured yet slightly cynical grin. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
  • His wife, on the one side, in her pearlings and pudding-sleeves, put the last finishing touch to her holiday’s apparel, while she contemplated a very handsome and good-humoured face in a broken mirror, raised upon the “bink” The Bride of Lammermoor
  • On the whole the celebrations were remarkably good-humoured and peaceful. Indeed, it seemed almost too good to be true.
  • The process is more an inquisition than an interview - albeit a good-humoured one.
  • The chemistry between Russell and Stowe sparky, but mostly good-humoured is off-set against the cloying danger presented by Liotta's character.
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