Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or manifesting a humor or disposition of a certain kind: used in composition: as, a good-humored man; you are very ill-humored to-day.
- 2. Governed by humor; capricious; humorous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
humor .
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Examples
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The lead must be "humored" into shape and not "driven" into shape.
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That slaves have to be "humored" a great deal, and that they very frequently can not be made to do their master's will, I have seen much evidence.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
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Two ex-Union officers who owned a plantation in Alabama exclaimed that they had “never employed so docile, industrious, and good humored a set of people in all our experience.”
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Even in intentionally tasteless but good-humored films like this one, I don't find the beating of elderly women to be very cool.
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Even in intentionally tasteless but good-humored films like this one, I don't find the beating of elderly women to be very cool.
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Although respecting him somewhat more, Clinton mostly humored Yeltsin.
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Instead the Turkish leader called for reform, but Mr. Assad merely humored that request and then turned his guns on his own people.
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They humored my objections but would never make any substantive changes.
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In the same way, to be good-humored and well-behaved, I need to make sure I have my coffee, my cell-phone charger, my constant snacks and my eight hours of sleep.
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Stoical, good-humored, a little bit touched in the head, and with a high tolerance for pain, I'm guessing:
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