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Example sentences for "goodnatured"

Lexicographically close words:
goodliest; goodliness; goodly; goodlye; goodnature; goodnes; goodness; goodnesse; goodnight; goods
  1. In this letter the Colonel expressed a goodnatured hope that, even out of season, a lost sheep, and so fine a lost sheep, would be gladly received.

  2. Those who most disliked him did him the justice to own that, where his schemes of policy were not concerned, he was a very goodnatured man.

  3. His dialect and his ignorance made him the butt of the company, but he was very goodnatured and took it all in good part.

  4. The repulsive wrinkles of suffering that furrowed his senile features were patched up, painted and smoothed over, and lines of goodnatured laughter and pleasant cheerful good humor were skillfully drawn in their place.

  5. But common soldiers are not apt to be the elite of mankind; neither do we know with how goodnatured a smile the mention of them may have been accompanied.

  6. Feversham passed for a goodnatured man: but he was a foreigner, ignorant of the laws and careless of the feelings of the English.

  7. By this time England had recovered from the sadness and anxiety caused by the death of the goodnatured Charles.

  8. Every rich and goodnatured lord was pestered by authors with a mendicancy so importunate, and a flattery so abject, as may in our time seem incredible.

  9. Dinah, who had thrust her laughing, black, goodnatured face into the dining room door.

  10. Other boys and girls too, threw the snowballs, but it was in goodnatured fun, and no one was hurt.

  11. But Rogers, I am told, has done many goodnatured things of this nature.

  12. Do take pen, or put it into goodnatured hands Dorothean or Wordsworthian-female, or Hutchinsonian, to inform us of your present state, or possible proceedings.

  13. Dryden muttered that the King would only make matters worse by trying to mend them, and sighed for the golden days of the careless and goodnatured Charles.

  14. He was too goodnatured to find any pleasure in tyranny, and too discerning not to see the signs of the coming retribution.

  15. JULIA (trying her theatrical method in a milder form--reasonable and impulsively goodnatured instead of tragic).

  16. But in awhile she came and kissed me in her girlish, goodnatured way.

  17. Next day brought me a goodnatured gossiping letter from dear Milly, written in compulsory French, which was, in some places, very difficult to interpret.

  18. That day there came a lively and goodnatured letter from Lady Knollys.

  19. He wrote the "Goodnatured Man," a piece which had a worse fate than it deserved.

  20. The plot of the "Goodnatured Man" is, like almost all Goldsmith's plots, very ill constructed.

  21. Haespele smiled his thanks, but was obliged to wait till all the women had filled their pitchers, which he did willingly, and was even goodnatured enough to help the others.

  22. He is a goodnatured creature, and every year consecutively, plays the part of the carnival Merryandrew.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goodnatured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.