ADJECTIVE
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not easily irritated
not everyone shared his placid temperament
an equable temper
remained placid despite the repeated delays
How To Use good-tempered In A Sentence
- Ramsden is a good-tempered truth-seeker, not a malevolent muckraker.
- He was good-tempered with her, only occasionally losing patience, telling her not to be a fool. THE GOLDEN LION
- Storm Walker was basically too good-tempered a horse to resort to those tactics. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
- Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle learn that Darcy is, according to his housekeeper, a kind, generous, good-tempered man.
- Casson's good-tempered account of the trip in Red Lacquer Days 1956 is contradicted by Ayer's memory of the "dislike which SS Spencer and I quickly came to feel for one another". John Chinnery obituary
- It was at once affectionate and unsentimental, satirical and good-tempered, orthodox and highly intelligent. It Was a Cheerful Home at the Austens'
- But, he was very loving, and hardly got upset, always good-tempered.
- Life safety precautions: First, beware of good-tempered people get angry; second, do something to lose, and nothing to compete.
- He was supposed to be calm, the one who was always good-tempered and understanding.
- As we sauntered forward I noticed all about lesser circles where the yellow-girted ones were drawing delighted laughter from good-tempered crowds by tricks of sleight-of-hand, and posturing, or tossing gilded cups and balls as though they were catering, as indeed they were, for outgrown children. Gulliver of Mars
