Meaning of good-temperedly | Babel Free

Definitions

In a good-tempered manner.

Examples

“You remember his gay old sister requested him to put off starving himself to death until she had returned from the festival of Ceres; alleging, that it would spoil her holiday if he refused to comply, as it was not permitted to appear in the procession immediately after the death of a relation; and how good-temperedly the sage acceded to her request.”

“If Diogenes coming to life again could have rolled himself, tub and all, into Mr. Pecksniff’s parlour, and could have seen Tom Pinch as he sat on Mercy Pecksniff’s stool, with his plate and glass before him, he could not have faced it out, though in his surliest mood, but must have smiled good-temperedly.”

“[H]e wore the elaborate cap dauntlessly at the school match, and only laughed good-temperedly when his fellows chaffed.”

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