good-natured

How To Use good-natured In A Sentence

• The actress is frequently locked into playing a stoic, good-natured sufferer with a look of passive resignation about her.
• It was 20 minutes into the game when any prospect of good-natured banter disappeared.
• The tartan army, for many a source of national pride as a good-natured counterpoint to prevailing hooliganism elsewhere, is now routinely derided in the press for its apparent buffoonery and lack of knowledge of the beautiful game.
• The doctor could not help laughing at the sort of "moue" she made: when he laughed, he had something peculiarly good-natured and genial in his look. Villette
• There is also hassling and teasing and good-natured joshing that to an adult looks like vicious bullying but to a child is something different.
• A smooth-faced, moon-faced young man was smiling at her good-naturedly. Amateur Night
• "The transmission is shot, the brakes are on their last legs, and all things considered I don't think a person as successful as you should be tooling around in a beat-up old junker like this," the car will good-naturedly inform the owner.
• They saw simply a loose, lank youth with tow-colored sunburned hair and a berry-brown, ingenuous face that wore a quizzical, good-natured smile.
• The Irish ranchers twitted me good-naturedly on my exploit, and patted me on the back until I felt that I had done something heroic. Chapter 4
• This was not good-natured banter, it was mockery. Times, Sunday Times