How to Use good-hearted in a Sentence

good-hearted

adjective
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  • Brown’s Mindy is a snarky wonder with the best lines, while Gooding’s Chad is a good-hearted take on decades of the jerky movie jock.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • One thing that never left, though, is his desire to be a good-hearted and kind teammate.
    — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
  • The duo was the oldest couple in the neighborhood, known as joyful, good-hearted people, Mitchell said.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • There’s also a good-hearted indeterminacy at the show’s core that keeps the catty premise from gelling with its nobler themes.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • That good-hearted nature makes Dixon's loss a devastating blow.
    — Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Hamm is sympathetic as the traumatized but good-hearted cop.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Wesley Guimarães gives a lively portrayal of China, Daniel’s sketchy, good-hearted neighbor.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Her character sings, cries and endures a Greek tragedy of a downfall, but instead of being a caricature, Chastain finds the soul of a complex, good-hearted woman.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Samuel has made a movie that imagines a good-hearted sinner slouching toward salvation one desperate measure at a time.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
  • That story, about a good-hearted Nazi and a cluster of Jews who survived, is an anomaly, a heartwarming exception that proves a dreadful rule about human complicity in evil.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Münchhausen earned a reputation far and wide as a good-hearted, generous, lively and dramatic storyteller—though not a liar.
    — Rosemary Counter, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Elegant, warm, good-hearted and diplomatic, Cinderella guides her daughter with a gentle hand.
    — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 9 Apr. 2024
  • This kind of good-hearted charm falters in Ishin!’s depictions of women, famous or otherwise, who function not as characters but as accessories to the male heroes and villains.
    — Reid McCarter, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Antonio’s good-hearted partner-in-crime is shot and killed; Antonio himself takes a bullet to the face but miraculously survives, setting him on the path to become El Tragabalas, the bullet-swallowing, vengeance-hungry folk hero.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Willie stays lodged in your memory even as the movie shifts to introduce Jerry, a good-hearted septuagenarian who, after a run of bad financial luck, has reluctantly agreed to sell off three of his mom-and-pop funeral homes to the Loewen Group.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Meet actor Young Mazino, who plays Paul, Yeun’s naively charming and good-hearted younger brother who somehow makes being catfished and having an affinity for crypto endearing.
    — Sara Klausing, Men's Health, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Most of us have learned to tolerate and even enjoy off-putting but good-hearted folks of all genders and ages who struggle with nuance and volume control because of neurodivergence, hearing loss, cultural conditioning or family dynamic.
    — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Decent, good-hearted people of all political persuasions can join together with their fellow Americans to repudiate fear-mongering and scapegoating by voting in massive numbers for Democrats up and down the ballot.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024

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