How To Use Good nature In A Sentence
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but since the "literature" of the hack is so perverse and disturbing in its "message," the term clownish is too light and good natured to be appropriate.
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A kind, good natured and most conscientious gentleman, Jimmy was well qualified in his career and always brought the personal touch to his dealings with people.
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The electropop band McIntosh fronts -- The Good Natured -- are the latest to break out of England.
Jon Chattman: Two On the Rise: Middle Class Rut and The Good Natured
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Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature?
Times, Sunday Times
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What little friendship, humanity, good nature there was between us has gone.
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Their predominant expression was good nature, a kind of elephantine docility, which neutralized the awe inspired by his immense size.
Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
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Kind, generous and good natured, she was a good friend to many and was devoted to her family.
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Beware of a presumptuous and thankless person who tends to take advantage of your good nature.
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Everyone imposes on Dave's good nature.
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Who hear swear with good nature? Best leave alone, keep silent.
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Try to see it as a compliment to your good nature as a team player.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, on the odd occasion, she did get a glimpse of a violent temper lurking beneath the calm surface of his apparent good nature.
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She's neat, organised, intelligent, motivated, good natured and talented across all arenas.
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Marija did not understand then, as she was destined to understand later, what there was attractive to a "forelady" about the combination of a face full of boundless good nature and the muscles of a dray horse; but the woman had told her to come the next day and she would perhaps give her a chance to learn the trade of painting cans.
The Jungle
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The audience was barracking them good naturedly.
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She was a good natured and kind-hearted lady who delighted in helping friends and neighbours.
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Many were the kind deeds performed by this good natured gentleman and he will be sadly missed by family and friends.
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The most cruelly-worded, cold-blooded, data - backed denunciation, using every needlesharp descriptive usage in the book (you more than most will recognize that sense of a job well done as 'publish' is pressed), is delivered with so much more ooomph when delivered with good nature, (despite the rage and contempt experienced while concocting the venom-tipped arrows).
Farewell Bill Deedes
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People are always taking advantage of her good nature.
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A pleasant, good natured and gentle person, Una's caring qualities were always to the fore.
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He had been reading the Report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth, and had found good things in it; but it was easy to see that he felt towards the author much as soldiers do towards the historiographer who follows the camp, more good nature than reverence for the gownsman.
Uncollected Prose
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Beside her was Jason, a tall gangly guy sporting what looked like ninety pounds of hair gel, and a good natured goofy grin.
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The crack was good natured throughout, a pleasing change from some of the poisonous atmospheres we have all witnessed whenever matches between historical rivals take place.
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Indeed, could we not hear her joining in as we talked, and good naturedly grumbling that if we couldn't have that kind of fogs, why then we ought to get close in shore among the crabs and the sand-fiddlers, where the big boats could not come; or else go into a quiet little creek with a sleepy little houseboat.
Virginia: the Old Dominion
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You come away entranced by the good nature of the couple.
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So far the action has been characterised by lively and good natured mass pickets with very few members crossing and many former non-members joining.
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Her qualifications as white witch were boundless cunning, equally boundless good nature, considerable knowledge of human weaknesses, some mesmeric power, some skill in "yarbs," as she called her simples, a firm faith in the virtue of her own incantations, and the faculty of holding her tongue.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
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Michael's genial good nature was very much to the fore at the Golf Club and he felt ‘at home’ here in more ways than one.
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Ethan became fond of her good nature, her liveliness, and her deep passion for nature.
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He had his father's good looks and his mother's good nature.
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They rib us in a good natured way while making it clear that they will not vote and are not taken in by our occasional concern for them.
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His brother John has been lucky -- his abilities, address, good nature, and good sense, have got him a surgeoncy in the batalion of guards, which is reckoned a very good thing.
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, Vol. 1
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(He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) ` This overcoat is as good as a blanket, 'he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness.
The Spike
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At election times on the canvass, her warmth and good nature struck a chord with most who met her.
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Last night, being desired to name a forfeit for the padre, I condemned him to dance the jarabe, of which he performed a few steps in his long gown and girdle, with equal awkwardness and good nature.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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The good nature they exude is infectious and helps the story over some rough patches for sure.
Bernal and Luna can’t save “Rudo y Cursi” » Scene-Stealers
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I think she takes advantage of his good nature.
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Mr. Ditton, the village lawyer, also saw it without having recourse to the spy-glass; but as Mr. Ditton had but lately had what he called a nip, and indeed several of them, he was in that happy state of sweet good nature which agrees with the last speaker.
The Mad Lady
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He was the class clown and easily one of the funniest, most good natured people I ever had the pleasure of knowing.
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No other competitor in any sport has been as consistently good or as unfailingly good natured.
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The redeeming point of the tenderfoot is his humbleness of spirit and his extreme good nature.
The Mountains
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So far the action has been characterised by lively and good natured mass pickets with very few members crossing and many former non-members joining.
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So far the action has been characterised by lively and good natured mass pickets with very few members crossing and many former non-members joining.
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He was a good natured, hard-working gentleman who had an earthy presence and a warm welcome for all.
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No other competitor in any sport has been as consistently good or as unfailingly good natured.
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Dick palmed a three-cornered sail needle through a set of broken pack straps, his good nature in nowise disturbed by the feminine cataclysm which was threatening to burst in the storm-beaten tent.
SIWASH
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Your Majesty, we too are believers in God; but we also believe in much beside; so, if but for comparison of creeds, which is never unprofitable while in good nature, I should like to hear the noble and fair speaking guest further.
The Prince of India — Volume 01
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John remembered, Dr. Johnson had lived, and he tried to imagine the scene that took place on the night of misery when Oliver Goldsmith went to the Doctor and wept over the failure of _The Good Natured Man_, and was called a ninny for his pains.
The Foolish Lovers
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Such was his good nature and sheer agreeableness that even after only a brief conversation with him the day was enhanced.
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Try to see it as a compliment to your good nature as a team player.
Times, Sunday Times
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Very friendly and good natured, Stronskiy is the type of man any serious rifleman would love to talk with.
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They are very good natured animals when domesticated, but I believe it to be impossible to cure that savageness, which all I have seen seem to possess.
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Good natured, kind and generous, Mary Ellen was held in great regard by all in the community.
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There has been another murder committed within a few miles of this place, which has given us something to gossip about, for the committee of vigilance had the good nature, purely for our amusement I conclude, to apprehend a lucky individual (I call him _lucky_ advisedly, for he had all his expenses paid at the Humboldt, was remunerated for his lost time, enjoyed a holiday from hard work, had a sort of guard of honor composed of the most respectable men on the river, and was of more consequence for four days than ever he had been in the whole of his insignificant little life before) whom somebody fancied bore a faint resemblance to the description of the murderer.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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Julia was a good natured and kind lady who was well liked throughout the local community.
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infare," as the wedding dinner was called, upon the table, and we stood about it to eat amid shouts and laughter and an exchange of wit as good natured as it was horrifying to bridal ears.
A Circuit Rider's Wife
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Kitty was full of good nature and her kind and compassionate ways endeared her to one and all.
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Shannon Torrez's attorney asked family and friends to testify to his client's good nature and to build a case that her actions were caused by severe postpartum depression, the result of a full-term stillbirth that occurred the same day as the kidnapping.
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A generous and good natured person, she was a lovely neighbour and friend and she will be very sadly missed by her family and close friends.
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Tell them too, that I have made a blunder through overhaste, through too much good nature: lay all the fault on me.
Chapter II
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In his theme for this volume Churchill summarized his interpretation of the war: ‘how the English-speaking peoples through their unwisdom, carelessness, and good nature allowed the wicked to rearm’.
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With the greatest good nature and good breeding, he was the very opposite to an assenter.
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
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What then would be the minimum modifications that would have to be imposed upon terrestrial life to enable us to make good nature's lack?
Infinite in All Directions
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If I were your enemy, I could not use you ill when I saw Fortune do it too, and in gallantry and good nature both, I should think myself rather obliged to protect you from her injuries (if it lay in my power) than double them upon you.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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Mikie was the middle brother of the five, and had been doted on by all because of his charm and good nature.
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I think she takes advantage of his good nature.
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He was an uneducated man, a plain unpretending plodding man,’ a neighbor remembered; one who ‘attended to his work, peaceable - quiet and good natured.’
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So the good natured banter and dressing room style bonhomie had been shattered by a traitor in our midst.
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Despite the heaving crowds the policemen and women on duty were all good natured and didn't seem to mind a bit of gentle ribbing from the stage.
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She is called "bibi" (aunt) by Greg's 4 year old son Willie, who is the light of Greg's life and a bundle of good natured fun and energy.
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If you ask me, they're just trading on Sam's good nature.
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Though it appeared better calculated to exclude the warm rays of the sun, than to keep out the cold; a cheerful fire within counterbalanced the evil; and I was seated opposite to a good natured squaw, and two or three children.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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It's not every day you will come across a man of his decency, honourability and sheer good nature, and even if you tried it would be impossible to find a flaw in the make up of his character.
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The official holds up each vote for the crowd to see, and is greeted with cheers or boos from the good natured crowd.
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Among the people I shoot skeet and sporting clays with, good natured heckling is an accepted, even encouraged, practice.
Cellular Heckling
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Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature?
Times, Sunday Times
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Lily was a gentle and good natured member of the local rural community, a fine neighbour and kind friend.
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Her good nature can be presumed upon once too often.
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But Browne presents him as an amalgam of innocence and worldliness, good nature and guile.
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This observation produced a long 'Na -- a-- a' of acknowledged detection; but, with his natural impudence, and confidence in my good nature, he immediately added, 'that he thought I would like a fresh trout or twa for breakfast, and the water being in such a rare trim for the saumon raun, [The bait made of salmon-roe salted and preserved.
Redgauntlet
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She was a good natured and kind-hearted lady who delighted in helping friends and neighbours.
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The daughter, nine years old, and not above forty feet high, was very good natured, became my schoolmistress, and called me Grildrig, which imports in English, mannikin.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
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In the latter Benavente is an enchanting master because of his unlaboured wit and comic verve, his radiant good nature, and his grace, which combines all these qualities.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 - Presentation Speech
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The Commandant laughed heartily at this blunt pleasantry, and partly out of good nature, and partly to avoid all blame should the prisoners escape, agreed to the proposal of the diplomatic subadar.
The Story of the Guides
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_Moor_, and _More_: and when he says that his good nature towards the dunces was so great that he had even "rhymed for Moor" (Ib.v. 373.), I cannot but suspect that the Moor _for_ whom he had _rhymed_, was the
Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850
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Don't be too intense, be serious but good natured if possible.
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Oh! that, my dear," he answered, beaming over his spectacles with the good nature of superior wisdom, "is known as argon!
Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way
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Dick palmed a three-cornered sail needle through a set of broken pack straps, his good nature in nowise disturbed by the feminine cataclysm which was threatening to burst in the storm-beaten tent.
SIWASH
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He was a good natured, kind and likeable gentleman who commanded much regard throughout the region
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The President accepted these arrangements with what seemed to me to be practically superhuman good nature.
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Other than walking around and smiling in a good natured, patricianly manner, he doesn't seem to have any connection at all with normal middle class people.
TV Review: Tory Toff by Peter Hitchens
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the waiters were unflurried and good natured
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run. Theodore Roosevelt
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He was a jolly, pleasant and good natured gentleman whose calm and serene demeanour endeared him to many.
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Her qualifications as white witch were boundless cunning, equally boundless good nature, considerable knowledge of human weaknesses, some mesmeric power, some skill in “yarbs,” as she called her simples, a firm faith in the virtue of her own incantations, and the faculty of holding her tongue.
Westward Ho!
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His good nature, his benevolence, and the pliableness of his disposition may surely be allowed to compensate for many defects.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian
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He was a good natured, kind and likeable gentleman who commanded much regard throughout the region
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But, instead, the plucky teenager is an academic high-flier and the life and soul of his school, where his name is a byword for good natured generosity.
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I fear I must once again presume on your good nature my dear.
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So exuberant, perhaps a tad inebriated but almost always good natured and fun.
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Who hear swear with good nature? Best leave alone, keep silent.
