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good-natured (comparative more good-natured or better-natured, superlative most good-natured or best-natured)
- Having or showing an amicable, kindly disposition.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 22:“It is singular,” said the Lady, addressing Warden; “the animal is not only so good-natured to all, but so particularly fond of children. […]”
1852, [Richard Hildreth], chapter LI, in The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive, Boston, Mass.: Tappan and Whittemore; Milwaukee, Wis.: Rood and Whittemore, page 332:There are a good many of these girls whom it is quite enough to spoil the temper of the best-natured woman in the world to have in the house with them.
1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Mackerel Trolling”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 181:Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.
1964 August, “Dr. B lights a pre-election fuse”, in Modern Railways, page 76:However, the immediate howls of outrage from the industry were in many cases less than good-natured.
2017, Charles Duff, “What About the Linen?”, in Charley’s Woods: Sex, Sorrow and a Spiritual Quest in Snowdonia, London: Zuleika, →ISBN, page 145:I had a rival for Marcel’s affections, a boy who later became the king of recorded classical music and confrère of Herbert von Karajan. I was vile to this poor chap who, like a cheerful Papageno, was much better-natured than I was.
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having or showing an amicable, kindly disposition
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