How To Use Good-humoured In A Sentence
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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
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But he had a mild, good-humoured, articulate side, verging on the academic, abjuring the sensational.
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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.
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The best way to approach them therefore is to leap directly into light, good-humoured conversation and make them laugh.
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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.
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He's a wee thing roosed!" remarked Sutherland, with a good-humoured yet slightly cynical grin.
Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
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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
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On the whole the celebrations were remarkably good-humoured and peaceful. Indeed, it seemed almost too good to be true.
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The process is more an inquisition than an interview - albeit a good-humoured one.
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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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I love you very much, Miss Rose," said the naturalist, turning his good-humoured handsome face full upon her, – "I do not know about everyzing.
The Hills of the Shatemuc
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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 shelves on which the plates are disposed) for her special accommodation.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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After a little good-humoured chaffing and laughing James managed to get rid of the rollicky crew, and shut the court-yard gates, having first made the round of the premises with Turk, the great bloodhound, just to satisfy himself that no loiterer was concealed among the bushes with felonious intentions.
A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
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Old bachelorship so decided as mine has its privileges in such a tete-a-tete, providing you are, or can seem for the time, perfectly good-humoured and attentive, and do not ape the manners of your younger years, in attempting which you will only make yourself ridiculous.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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I hadn't taught Mark but the teachers who did said he was good-humoured, mild-mannered, a clever lad who answered perceptively but didn't want to draw attention to himself.
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In the original, the director Todd Phillips, a frat-boy gross-out specialist, stayed good-humoured, even in the muckier scenes.
Evening Standard - Home
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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 shelves on which the plates are disposed) for her special accommodation.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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For all its misgivings about the future the book remains good-humoured.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love you very much, Miss Rose," said the naturalist, turning his good-humoured handsome face full upon her, -- "I do not know about everyzing.
Hills of the Shatemuc
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But, contrary to the way outsiders love to categorise the unreconstructed left, they treated those who did not share their belief system with much good-humoured tolerance.
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K. is bosh; I have no use for him; but we must do what we can with the fellow meanwhile; he is good-humoured and honest, but inefficient, idle himself, the cause of idleness in others, grumbling, a self-excuser — all the faults in a bundle.
Vailima Letters
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Mr Adams spent time exchanging small talk and enjoying the good-humoured banter, signing autographs and receiving hugs and kisses.
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But the citizens of this terminal world are buoyantly good-humoured.
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He was a good-humoured, patient man of great personal charm, an energetic and skilled administrator and excellent public speaker.
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They have even been described as merely good-humoured looking "fatties" -- a sufficiently humble panegyric.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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In the wake of Lightfoot's good-humoured resurrection, a huge blamestorm blew through the media and blogosphere, and few seemed to be able to get the story straight.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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The eulogists - and many of them knew Gerry a lot longer than this writer - have variously described him as an even-tempered, good-humoured and generous man, traits of his character we all knew and recognised.
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She had a fund of anecdotes and her good-humoured mimicking of personalities is justly famous.
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On taking their departure, these good-humoured and ever-cheerful people greeted us with three cheers in the true Kabloona style, a mode of salutation they had observed once or twice among us, and frequently practised for their amusement and ours.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
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And yet so unfailingly good-humoured?
Times, Sunday Times
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Will he strike his ebony wood staff angrily on the floor, frightening him by the incoherent violence of his exclamations; or will he squat down with a good-humoured smile, and, rubbing his hands gently over his stomach with a familiar gesture, expectorate copiously into the brass siri-vessel, giving vent to a low, approbative murmur?
Almayer's Folly
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It is the people who are the real attraction here: good-humoured and unintrusive, their nature seems much at odds with the ongoing civil conflict.
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Good-humoured, often merry, abounding in kindness and generosity, he passed for a man as happy as he was prosperous; yet those who talked intimately with him obtained now and then a glimpse of something not quite in harmony with these characteristics, a touch of what would be called fancifulness, of uncertain spirits.
The Crown of Life
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They held loud and long theological discussions, good-humouredly anathematizing Richard as an infidel, and showed their medals and crosses.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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Merchant resigned his seat but was unfailingly good-humoured about being derided as a figure of fun by the Westminster village.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would cost her some effort to do so, he was so sincere, good-humoured, conversable, and obliging.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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It differed from song as much as the declamation — barely coloured by imperceptible modulations — of Boris Godounov and Pelléas; but on the other hand recalled the psalmody of a priest chanting his office of which these street scenes are but the good-humoured, secular, and yet half liturgical counterpart.
The Captive
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But he had a mild, good-humoured, articulate side, verging on the academic, abjuring the sensational.
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Will he strike his ebony wood staff angrily on the floor, frightening him by the incoherent violence of his exclamations; or will he squat down with a good-humoured smile, and, rubbing his hands gently over his stomach with a familiar gesture, expectorate copiously into the brass siri-vessel, giving vent to a low, approbative murmur?
Almayer's Folly
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It is lacking in the Lane-Pontifexes, who make her spirits sink every time they ask the Minivers to dinner; but it is there in abundance in Mrs. B, the new charlady, "with her large good-humoured laugh".
Mrs. Miniver
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It was all sharp, but good-humoured; he once made a paper dart of a poem that George had written and threw it across the room.
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The skinner was a fat, good-humoured creature, like all
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia
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The rider, a young man with a very handsome face, and dressed with that peculiar care which we commonly call dandyism, cried out, good-humouredly, "Don't be afraid; the horse sha'n't hurt any of you.
My Novel — Volume 06
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On the whole the celebrations were remarkably good-humoured and peaceful. Indeed, it seemed almost too good to be true.
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He may have been dubious about some of the more outlandish changes that had occurred in journalism but it was always in a good-humoured way.
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Skilful while professional; flashy, yet substantial; good-humoured, but focused, always willing to give 100% to a perpetually glamourless cause: Jay-Jay, you're always welcome back here.
The Guardian World News
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Since Monday I have been counting the number of coppers, cop cars, dog handling units, malicious arrests and good-humoured stop-and-searches I've spotted in Hackney.
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He was a good-humoured, patient man of great personal charm, an energetic and skilled administrator and excellent public speaker.
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Charles was brave and remarkably good-humoured.
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The walkers were good-humoured despite the bad weather.
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They also acknowledged him to have been unfailingly good-humoured, witty and kind.
Times, Sunday Times
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The good news is that those with a talent for solving puzzles and deciphering cryptic clues will be in with a chance to win a cash prize and, of course, enjoy plenty of fun and good-humoured banter along the way.
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Now I take this very kind, Mr. Craig; for I could not have expected you, considering ye have got, as I am told, your jo in the house"; at which words the Doctor winked paukily to Mr. Daff, who rubbed his hands with fainness, and gave a good-humoured sort of keckling laugh.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
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I didn't expect Tim to actually like the show (since he usually assails everything I watch with a sort of good-humoured mockery), but he'd sit down and watch it with me and even ask me to tape it when he had to go out.
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The _Shark's_ boat came alongside just then, and the men passed down their "dunnage" into her amid a brisk fire of good-humoured chaff from their shipmates, and such enquiries as: "Hello, Jim, haven't you got so much as a monkey or a parrot to cheer us up with?" and so on.
A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
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On the other side of the table was a ghostlier form, the faint figure of an antagonist good-humouredly but a little wearily secure -- an antagonist who leaned back in his chair with his hands in his pockets and a smile on his fine clear face.
The Figure in the Carpet
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He is courteous, good-humoured, shrewd, canny and from a humble background in Edinburgh.
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But he had a mild, good-humoured, articulate side, verging on the academic, abjuring the sensational.
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Garrulous, passionate and good-humoured, 35-year-old Khan is an immediately engaging personality who radiates confidence.
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He is courteous, good-humoured, shrewd, canny and from a humble background in Edinburgh.
