good-humored

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Recent Examples of good-humored Chicago, rough and refined, gritty and good-humored, welcomes all comers. Elaine Glusac, AFAR Media, 19 May 2025 Ukrainians are a good-humored, industrious and resourceful people who finally achieved independence in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, precipitated by the aggressive stance against communism by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025 There’s Ardern, the graceful, good-humored leader, whose jovial nature and kindness-first approach is framed in sharp contrast to that of Donald Trump in the doc. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025 Like a chill senior’s valedictory address, Endgame mixes good-humored winks with a misty-eyed reverence for everything that’s come before while never wearing out its welcome. Kevin Lincoln, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025 Patriot, the posthumous memoir of Alexei Navalny, is distressing but also surprisingly good-humored and funny. airmail.news, 26 Oct. 2024 Mangold depicts Cash in both Walk the Line and A Complete Unknown as nervy mysteries always on the edge of a breakdown, though Boyd Holbrook plays him as more mischievous and good-humored compared to the brooding Joaquin Phoenix. Brady Gerber, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024 Gentle and good-humored, musicians Ed and Victoria Hammill have performed just about every role in the music business while living in Austin, Nashville, Tennessee; Asheville, North Carolina, and elsewhere. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Dec. 2024 Like many Australians the 56-year-old is good-humored, chatty, and well disposed toward Americans. Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for good-humored
Adjective
  • After years of a legal battle where both sides won key judgments, officials chalked up the apparently amiable end to new personalities at the top of each agency.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2025
  • The performances were too amiable and not particularly satirical (much like the real-life Harris’s own appearance on the show).
    Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • That living arrangement produces some friction and good-natured barbs, but Sybil, as played by Lavin, always leads with love and a generous spirit.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
  • After some good-natured interaction with the enthusiastic crowd, Cena eventually donned the mask.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • Rigg’s voice is sharp and engrossing, her characters cunning but affable.
    Isle McElroy, Vulture, 21 May 2025
  • Pat McCarthy, a rangy, affable young visual artist who lives near the Halsey Avenue stop on the J train, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, keeps about a hundred pigeons on the roof of his building during the winter.
    Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • Its three-stateroom design lets owners and guests can enjoy weekend cruising, while the exterior promotes gracious outdoor living in the large beach-club area, or up on the sport bridge.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 28 May 2025
  • But Bill Fox fans are a kind of a tribe, and Hagan was as gracious as could be.
    Nate Rogers, Vulture, 22 May 2025

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