Too good-natured to resent a little criticism. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
CONAN: Oh, I'm sure nothing but good-natured, yeah. From Wordnik.com. [Tribute to the Music of New Orleans] Reference
He had a weathered, drug-scarred, but good-natured face. From Wordnik.com. [Finite Automatons in Winter Quarter] Reference
Bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
"Then you're the folks I want!" was the good-natured answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
There was a burst of good-natured laughter at Reddy's expense. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
"My!" she cried, with a good-natured laugh, as she noticed how. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
"Well! I will do my best not to guess, then," said the good-natured. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This is not an innocent, good-natured chef who got in over his head. From Wordnik.com. [After debt and legal issues, Roberto Donna starts from scratch with Galileo III] Reference
"What's wrong with that?" he says in a defensive but good-natured way. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan's Striving Son] Reference
"So, where do we go from here?" she asked, amid the good-natured banter. From Wordnik.com. [In A League Of Her Own] Reference
But not to worry: the good-natured "Monsters, Inc." is decidedly kid-friendly. From Wordnik.com. [Movies: Scare The Heck Out Of 'Shrek'?] Reference
Pursuing this point, her normally good-natured voice takes on an icy severity. From Wordnik.com. [Touched By The Angels] Reference
The giant continued to gaze at them, with the same good-natured grin on his face. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
"You may come and thank him yourself if you like," said the good-natured gardener. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Lamb on Wheels] Reference
The diatribes struck some of the reporters on the press bus as oddly good-natured. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge To 2000] Reference
I unpack my lunch and the kids try to out-do each other on the good-natured insults. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Quarfordt: The Heart of Teaching and Learning: The Kids Want Kale] Reference
Usually, Germany's lenten carnival season means nonstop parties and good-natured cheer. From Wordnik.com. [BAD TO WORSE] Reference
Pushing the door open suddenly, he cried from the threshold in his loud, good-natured voice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Other boys and girls too, threw the snowballs, but it was in good-natured fun, and no one was hurt. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
It will be a good-natured fight, but at the end of the day we feel Boris has a good record to run on. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Livingstone set to beat Oona King in Labour vote for London mayor] Reference
He made a movement to rush forward; a smile covered his good-natured face, but it ended in a grimace. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Although I was cheerful, affectionate and good-natured, none of these qualities interested my father. From Wordnik.com. [Shedding The Weight Of My Dad's Obsession] Reference
They were dubious, but they were also good-natured sorts (Jilly takes after them) who only wanted the best for me. From Wordnik.com. [Magnificent Pigs] Reference
Weezer is (for the most part) agreeable and good-natured, pop-culture loving with a definite side dish of insanity. From Wordnik.com. [Riffs: Pop stars get "Lost"] Reference
A good-natured lady, in easy circumstances, and of benevolent impulses, is appealed to by a poor man in the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
He romanced Winona Ryder with enough good-natured lasciviousness to seduce Hollywood, now hunting for the next Brad Pitt. From Wordnik.com. [New Faces Of 1996] Reference
The likely outcome to the good-natured snit will be an Ohio birthplace of aviation quarter with John Glenn and the Wrights. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
The good-natured giant showed them where they could find rude wooden dishes and table implements, and then he left them alone. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
He was large and bald-headed, with a good-natured face, a red beard sprinkled with white hairs, and he wore a short, loose coat. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
NBC's timely Outsourced may also succeed if the audience is open to good-natured humor that defies strident political correctness. From Wordnik.com. [Ed Martin: Broadcast's New Season is a Disappointing Follow-Up to Last Fall's Big Success] Reference
Like me, Callahan felt that so long as humor was delivered in a good-natured effort to entertain, absolutely nothing was tasteless. From Wordnik.com. [Fearless John Callahan pushed boundaries of taste and humor with his art] Reference
Was he a short-tempered but essentially good-natured buffoon, or was this the man whose childish overreactions would instigate nuclear war?. From Wordnik.com. [Khrushchev in the Land of Lincoln] Reference
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