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good-humoured, a.
(The stress is variable.)
[f. prec. + -ed2.]
a. Of persons: Possessed of or characterized by good-humour; having a cheerful, amiable, and unruffled disposition.
b. Of a look or utterance: Indicative of good humour.
1662Pepys Diary 15 June, Nan Pepys's 2nd husband..is a very good-humoured man, an old cavalier. 1712Steele Spect. No. 474 ⁋6 The justness of which we would controvert with good-humoured warmth. 1771Junius Lett. lii. 266 Nature intended him only for a good-humoured fool. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan III. 145 He was permitted, with..a good-humoured laugh, to pass on. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset II. xlv. 8 They all pronounced her..to be very good-humoured.
Comb.1843Marryat M. Violet xxxvii, The slaves so good-humoured-looking, so clean. 1864Motley Corr. 23 Aug. II. 173 The King of Prussia..a tall, sturdy, good-humoured-faced elderly man.
Hence goodˈhumouredly adv.
1786Mrs. Piozzi Anecd. of Johnson 205 The truth is, Mr. Johnson was often good-humouredly willing to join in childish amusements. a1801Wakefield Mem. (1804) I. 29 To this Johnson, good-humouredly and sarcastically, replied, ‘That [etc.]’. 1883Gilmour Mongols xxxi. 363 The Peking carters..good-humouredly revile them. |