Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Chiefly Brit. Same as
good-humored .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
good-humored .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disposed to please
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Examples
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"But the park is still ours," protest leaders added defiantly.10.00pm: It looks like things are pretty quiet and good-humoured at Zuccotti Park this evening.
Occupy Wall Street: Zuccotti Park re-opens - as it happened 2011
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Many people who used to brandish their celeb weekly as a badge of good-humoured ordinariness are now too ashamed to do so.
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The Italian might have been in a rage at that instant in the practice session but he came across as good-humoured afterwards.
Fabio Capello: The feared ogre who became England's nurturer | Kevin McCarra 2011
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"Will there be looting?" he asked excitedly, having already compared the good-humoured Vaughan to Alan Partridge.
England launch World Cup 2015 with Daleks and Angel of the North | Robert Kitson 2011
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Six years before she had been a pretty, good-humoured girl, whom every one loved and caressed.
Chapter 6 2010
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The story makes good use of paradox and the butterfly effect, but its greatest charms lie in Si's good-humoured observations of old New York and the love story that gradually develops between Si and the beautiful Julia, who doesn't believe Si when he tells her he's a time traveller.
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His powerfully muscular frame, topped by a mop of blond hair and his trademark moustache, was a familiar sight in climbing magazines for 35 years, but even at the height of his fame, which in Europe was considerable, he remained himself: approachable, good-humoured and endlessly enthusiastic.
Kurt Albert obituary Ed Douglas 2010
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We have never seen her so relaxed and good-humoured.
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In an interview with O Globo she said she wanted her officers to be "polite, clean-shaven, good-humoured and kind".
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Oh!, you, the jolly good-humoured people of Pernes-les-Fontaines, you said the magic words to that desperate wife stuck in the queue, eyes fixed on her impatient husband outside.
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