good-tempered

How To Use good-tempered In A Sentence

• All the customers were different, and as he was a new waiter, he didn't know how to tell the difference between a good-tempered and a bad-tempered one.
• A generally good-tempered match exploded briefly at the end of the first half with a brawl involving virtually every player on the pitch.
• While John Marshall found him "a sensible, plain, candid, good-tempered man," Jefferson could see in him nothing but a "monocrat" and "Anglo-man. History of the United States
• She had loved that blustrous good-tempered Tom Halliday so very dearly, and it was only to please poor Georgy that she brought herself to address any other man by the name that had been his. Birds of Prey
• Mother's a good-tempered woman but she gets fair moithered. The Secret Garden
• Three months after the death, the family are still struggling to accept that the man they knew as quiet, hard-working and good-tempered had been killed so brutally.
• A good-tempered, smart stallion mule was a prize - and about the only unmortgaged asset Clyde had left. Time Enough For Love
• This pony was an absolute pet - chestnut with a white blaze, very good-tempered, but with spirit, and of course I said ‘Yes’.
• Parker's big-bellied appearance and his good-tempered and kind-hearted manner make him seem better suited to the role of English landlord than highly successful producer.
• A big, simple, good-tempered man, slow to anger, who cut his food into tiny pieces and spoke with a slight lisping awkwardness because most of his teeth had been lost to battle or age. Dark Moon of Avalon