Adjective : a good-humored man; a good-humored remark. From Dictionary.com.
He seemed to have become good-humoured all at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
They constituted a motley, good-humoured gathering in all shades. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
The danger was past, and he could afford to be good-humoured again. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
'Me trade, is it?' she answered, with a feeble, good-humoured laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Though annoyed and hurt, he mustered a good-humoured smile as he said. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
I have never known him anything but good-humoured under any conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
At length the Caliph interposed with a good-humoured smile, and said. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Caliph] Reference
"Oh, do you?" replied Seth gruffly -- albeit he was as good-humoured as usual. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
On their stubborn refusal, they were given in charge to a fat, good-humoured, old. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
He was a big man, with a good-humoured, ugly face, surmounted by curly black hair. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
The Reverend Mr. Dixon Mallaby looked him up and down with good-humoured scrutiny. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
Out of the motor stepped a young man with a good-humoured, freckled face, very like. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
'So I do, I hope,' replied his brother, with the same good-humoured twinkle in his eye. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
He was six feet four in height, well proportioned, with a good-humoured, handsome face. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
There had been some amount of good-humoured chaff bandied to and fro across the pit, but nothing more. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
And every season that show proves good value: luscious, well-attended, good-humoured and celebrity-studded. From Wordnik.com. [No sign of Kate, but even without its muse Topshop's new look attracts star quality] Reference
Renouf, a plucky, good-humoured Private, walked down just afterwards with the blood dripping from his side. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
O'Connor kept up a crossfire of good-humoured raillery, while Kathleen sat between them, smiling at their jests. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Oxford a very good-humoured fellow, and every body liked him; but he never could contrive to be in time for any thing. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
Her good-humoured visage revived me, as if I had met a friend of as many years standing as she numbered on her cradle. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
In came the goodwife with even greater signs of trouble than her husband, but all in a flurry of good-humoured welcome. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
As regarded her qualities and accomplishments, she was good-humoured and tolerably unaffected, but wilful and capricious as. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
James and his mules were placed safely on the towing-path, he had to stand a considerable amount of good-humoured chaffing. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President] Reference
He knew that as a good-humoured joke an inch of crawly can be tolerated, but when used in malice, nothing is more irritating. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
Frenchman, but a portly, handsome, good-humoured Irishman, well known and much disliked by the Polynesian protestant missionaries. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
But if in quarters they were made the subject of much good-humoured quizzing, in the field their steady valour was justly appreciated. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Varro, printed at Dort, are adorned with many lively cuts of bears and their good-humoured cubs, because the printer's name is Joannis. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Butthe constantly good-humoured Kastner always treated triumph and disaster just the same, and there were plenty of both in his career. From Wordnik.com. [Elliott Kastner obituary] Reference
Desisting at length from his good-humoured attempts, the proprietor of the cards and board replaced them in his pocket and lit a cigar. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914] Reference
Her thin wrinkled physiognomy is, however, rendered agreeable by its good-humoured expression, and her meagre figure has the benefit of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
She was unusually bright and animated, and chattered all manner of good-humoured nonsense with the juge de paix and the garde-champĂȘtre. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Her sisters were good-humoured and interested; and it was therefore evident that there would be no lack of conversation during those holidays. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
"Only by the skin of my teeth," he answered, smiling all over his face in such a good-humoured way that I could not help taking a liking to him. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
Grace turned from the good-humoured and merry banter of the young man to his more serious elder brother, who stood by his side, waiting for her greeting. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
"Do call me by my right name, please," interposed the good-humoured young fellow, speaking in such a sort of pleading way that Seth could not take offence. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
He had a jolly, round, benevolent sort of face, which wore at the moment such a good-humoured expression that, I suppose, it became reflected on mine causing me to smile. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
"But if they are going to fight and charge one another, won't the fountains be in the way?" inquired Ridgwell anxiously, as he looked up into the Lion's good-humoured face. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
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