Looking for sentences and phrases with the word good-natured? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Amiable, good-natured and good fun, this is a highly promising feature debut from Simon Pegg.
What struck me, though was how good-natured the whole march was at the weekend.
Adrian was a good-natured and handsome man with a joyful attitude when he was married to Julie.
Oddly, it isn't included on this debut album though its good-natured whimsy would have chimed well with these songs.
She was a good-natured, kind and pleasant person and a most helpful neighbour who will be missed by all who knew her.
Bullying behavior isn't always easy to define. Where do you draw the line between good-natured ribbing and bullying?
While Amber rattled on about what she wanted Anthony to do, Nick gave him a good-natured wave and quietly slipped away from the conversation.
Churchy is a little too brainless to resist evil at first, though too good-natured to persist in it.
It is hard to be brutally critical of this DVD beyond mockery and a good-natured ribbing.
The air was full of good-natured chaff and badinage between persons who had never seen each other before and never expected to again.
Intermittent showers failed to dampen the high spirits of the good-natured crowd.
He was a much loved figure, witty, kind-hearted, and absent-minded, and his satires are plain, clear, homely, and predominantly good-natured.
But, also like baseball, it's entirely pardonable in view of its good-natured competitiveness and unpretentious charm.
Yet there was clear evidence that the demonstrations were good-natured and peaceful.
His competition with the since-departed major was supportive and good-natured, a sign of maturity from an otherwise cocksure prodigy.
The children were perplexed by her unexpected good humor, but they admired her good-natured bravery in the face of personal tragedy.
Viewed through 21 st-century eyes, the political landscape Macmillan describes seems almost impossibly genteel and good-natured.
We need good-natured tolerance, not fawning submission where ethnicity is concerned.
Peppered with innocuously mischievous lines, the play brought forth suppressed smiles, to say nothing of good-natured guffaws.
He couldn't sleep at night, only thinking of her slim and attractive figure with a good-natured mind.
Show More Sentences
Village folk accepted the gentle, good-natured confirmed teetotaller, who looked odd and harmed no one.
When treated well, dogs can be loyal companions, good-natured playmates for children and steadfast protectors of home and hearth.
He was a big, good-natured fellow with a scrubby brown beard that had liberal flecks of gray.
Chris is one of the story's truly good-natured personalities even though he submits to the fleshly desires of the wayward physician Diane.
Deanna, a hard-working and good-natured woman, was gladly up to share a smoke and some gab when not working the dive deck.
In addition to gaining seriousness, the genial, good-natured boy becomes a sarcastic and bitter man.
Nemo is a little fish kid whose overprotective dad, Marlin, is perfectly voiced by Albert Brooks, that prince of good-natured anxiety.
Headteacher Gillian James said the protest was good-natured but warned that future absences would be punished.
Today, that spirit shines through in his live show, where he is truly able to showcase every ounce of his good-natured charm and joie de vivre.
The befuddled hosts at first tried to jolly Stewart into being the good-natured guest they'd expected.
He was the good-natured guy who shot all those air balls and then sank a perfect basket.
The actress is frequently locked into playing a stoic, good-natured sufferer with a look of passive resignation about her.
He remains a charming, impeccably polite, good-natured and amazingly resilient man.
She is not portrayed as angelic but as a believably good-natured and optimistic adolescent.
There is some good-natured ribbing between them and from within the Glasgow squad about the pair being gay icons.
What was funny to me, however, was the barely masked anger in their tone disguised as concern or good-natured ribbing.
There was good-natured ribbing while the teams walked quietly through the night to their tents.
Most of the time, it's good-natured ribbing of a guy who uses hand cream or gets a little prissy about his hair.
Larry shouted back cordially, having taken Robby's genuine insult as mere good-natured ribbing.
Filming with a mini camera quickly brought a good-natured crowd of local residents flocking round, proud of their remarkable monument.
Show More Sentences
They possess no beard on their good-natured faces and their stomachs are usually rounded.
Often those jokes were along the lines of long, good-natured comedic stories.
My good-natured sister was holding my father's hand, happily taking it all in.
At first I thought this was merely a good-natured jibe, but apparently this long-haired, tattily dressed young man was quite serious.
At the port, what started out as a backslapping exercise by the general shifted after a good-natured jibe from one of the enlisted soldiers.
He was a big, burly, baldish man, patient and good-natured, but given to blank trances of absence of mind.
It was 20 minutes into the game when any prospect of good-natured banter disappeared.
Jockeying for position, directly ahead of the knobby, barnacled, good-natured whale, the porpoise catches a free ride.
He remains modest and self-effacing, thank goodness, but now we know there is a core of steel within the good-natured exterior.
They saw simply a loose, lank youth with tow-colored sunburned hair and a berry-brown, ingenuous face that wore a quizzical, good-natured smile.
After each story, he laughed about the good-natured fun they had shared bloodying each others faces.
Last year I met a bomb victim, Ali Muorad, a good-natured twentysomething native of tyre in southern Lebanon.
Jeana served the first helping of cock-a-leekie stew to Ray, and, with a good-natured grin, he encouraged her to pile it on, despite her disapproving look.
Then, the typically good-natured crowd seethed with anger when West appeared hours late and then delivered an underwhelming set.
A good hour and a half later, Erial once more stepped outside the sickroom, this time not mildly irritated and hiding her slight anxiety under good-natured insults.
The queues to honour the Queen Mother's death were good-natured and there can hardly have been a more thoroughly British expression of sympathy than the orderly queue.
He was too much of a gentleman, however, too genial and good-natured, too averse to controversy to agitate for the major generalcy he knew he deserved.
Throughout it all, Hilty remained relatively good-natured with the press, a proper balance of self-aware and self-deprecating.
Made us roar in the mess, though I've had to put up with a certain amount of good-natured chaff about having a father who reads the Guardian, let alone writes for it!
Not generally known for their sense of humour but generally good-natured these lefties are always happy to tease the champagne socialists that inhabit Islington.
Show More Sentences
He had to prove that Fallon's reign isn't a fluke, that late night really can be a home for the affable and good-natured.
Celebrate our Australianness by showing our usual mistrustful, self-deprecating, egalitarian, good-natured detestation of all such symbols of overt self-glorification.
His successless attempt earned him sympathy, condolences, and an occasional good-natured ribbing.
The other passengers were three Norwegians, three fossil Englishmen, two snobbish do., and some jolly, good-natured, free-and-easy youths.
Topher Grace watches panic-stricken in a good-natured romcom, sparkily scripted.
Febold was always a good-natured cuss, but he really got peeved one year when the weather got hotter and drier and drouthier every day.
But there is usually more to Automobile Week than good-natured tubthumping for the new passenger car models.
He's usually pretty good-natured when the children give him a hard time about his bald spot.
On taking the podium, McCain offered the obligatory grace notes, including a good-natured comment that Roever was a tough act to follow.
This brought a smile to Robbins' face, and her good-natured retort indicated a brushback pitch would be a more likely scenario.
The Dublin beauty is the ditzy love interest of posh Southsider Ivor in the hit sitcom, but the actress has revealed good-natured Damo is more her kind of man.
Unused to commotion and as also being surprised over that day's angersome attitude of her ever good-natured son, the Doctor's mother came and saw things to herself.
Examples from Classical Literature
My brother and sister will be at hand with their good-natured constructions.
Mr Verloc gathered everything as it came to his broad, good-natured breast.
Wheeler walked away, with a good-natured laugh that made Kennedy feel better than a cough drop could have done.
Sawaichi was a honest, good-natured fellow, who earned a bare living by giving lessons on the koto and samisen.
Although she looked good-natured, the size and ponderance of the lady were intimidating.
Oh, you are so preachy, you are so good-natured, you believe all the prim things that grown people say!
Sim was a great, stout, bow-legged fellow, as good-natured as the day was long.
She was too good-natured to take offense, however, and only grinned at them.
If I had owt agin him I'd go an' lick him or be licked, an' take it all good-natured.
His good-natured smile at my maladroitness I treasured up as a deadly wrong.
Then there were a few words said about Miss trotter which were not altogether good-natured.
Indeed, the glance which met his own seemed to Orme to be disarmingly good-natured.
The people here said that he was the ugliest man, and the most good-natured, that ever lived.
There were gangs of good-natured rowdies, and there were roughhouse communities in pioneer days.
The good-natured smile that passed between them, proved the unlikelihood of this, and Old Salt went on.
They certainly were not a prepossessing or good-natured acquisition to the party.
And my sister, who was always good-natured, carried me off to ransack her wardrobe.
His business and stock-in-trade consist of a box set up on two wheels, and drawn by a good-natured yellow dog.
Most good-natured dealers will let you do this if you do not expect them to unstack a whole pile just for one or two boards.
Nim is the fattest man in quodlibet, and besides, is the most dressy and good-natured man we have.
Show More Sentences
He looks like an opulent and good-natured butcher disguised as a Hungarian bandsman.
He was such a good-natured, free-hearted fellow, that every body liked him, even his creditors.
She was the least selfish of human beings, the least opinionative, the most good-natured.
Galton's good-natured patronage of him was a thing to which no one was indifferent.
Ning Lai-chn was a Chekiang man, and a good-natured, honourable fellow, fond of telling people that he had only loved once.
She was luckier than her colleague La Rouche, who was far too good-natured with people.
He's a cheerful, good-natured party, even if he is built like a 2x4 and about as broad in the shoulders as a cough drop is thick.
This good-natured fellow's present was highly valuable and useful to me.
Then he began to laugh and Guillaume realised all the good-natured irony of his laugh.
Madame Fressard smiled in a good-natured but rather ironical way.
He was the best type of the good-natured, level-headed, hard-hitting Englishman.
He seemed good-natured, he was freehanded, he had money, he never said anything.
And you've got a good-natured brother, who'll keep your secret well, because you'll be so very obliging to him.
And yet she was so good-natured, so full of fun and bonhomie!
Fearfully rich, handsome, great connections, an aide-de-camp, and with all that a very nice, good-natured fellow.
The people of carcajou were good-natured 18 but prone to guffaws.
Taken altogether, Benry and all his saru Ainu are very good-natured.
Jamie lives with his blowzy, good-natured mother Sandra on a run-down London housing estate.
He was a noisy, boisterous, reckless lad, whose good-natured eye contradicted the bluntness and bullying tenor of his speech.
Instantly his attitude of good-natured bantering and pompous boastfulness dropped from him.
Show More Sentences
He stared at me with a hopeless expression upon his vacuous, good-natured, scrubby little face.
It would have been good-natured except for a look in the eyes, which shone with a watery, mawkish light under almost white, blinking eyelashes.
The pilot turned out to be a good-natured specimen of his kind, condescending, sententious.
He was good-natured, plucky in a hard-headed British way, and gentlemanly.
Haywood is a big, good-natured boy, but quite sentimental, too.
Otherwise he was intelligent, statesmanlike, and good-natured.
Rawdon Crawley paid scarcely any attention to Dobbin, looking upon him as a good-natured nincompoop and under-bred City man.
The children seemed to tumble about and amuse themselves like a litter of rough, good-natured collie puppies.
She sobbed so unrestrainedly that good-natured Yorkshire Martha was a little frightened and quite sorry for her.
She implored her so urgently to let her spend the night with her in the golden bed, that at last the good-natured little Princess consented.
He was far too good-natured and unspoilt, and I was too fond of him.
He looked very good-natured and prepossessing, though overpoweringly gay and free, in contrast with the squalid prison.
Weak and good-natured as he was, Valerie was really the one with will.
But Lena Lingard only laughed her lazy, good-natured laugh and rode on, gazing back over her shoulder at Ole's infuriated wife.
Mrs. Parkman said this in a good-natured way, as if she meant it in joke.
He was not very wise, but very good-natured, and altogether an excellent person to carry on a picnic.
I am not sure but he is the most good-natured, though he is so podgy.
He's friendly same as I said an' he stood up an' showed me good-natured like, an' I imitated what he did till I knowed it by heart.
She is easy, good-natured, and compliant about everything but her sleep.
By and by, when we had dined in a sumptuous manner off boiled dabs, melted butter, and potatoes, with a chop for me, a hairy man with a very good-natured face came home.
Show More Sentences
And before the great, good-natured public is aware, it has been placed in leading strings, its rights circumscribed and its natural privileges abolished.
Aunt woke up and, being more good-natured after her nap, told me to read a bit and show what frivolous work I preferred to the worthy and instructive Belsham.
He begins with congratulations on the approaching nuptials of my eldest daughter, of which, it seems, he has been told by some of the good-natured, gossiping Lucases.
Whatever prejudiced and unauthorised constructions your blind and envious wrath may put upon his character, it is a frank, good-natured character.
Newman watched him, and, without yielding an inch on the main issue, felt an incongruously good-natured impulse to help him to retreat in good order.
All the while the good-natured improvised courier was telling me this, I hung upon his words, my legs trembling under me so that I could scarcely stand.
He was to have followed the procession and waited upon his sovereign in a cab, but that his good-natured sister-in-law insisted that they should be a family party.
