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good-temperedly

good-temperedly adverb: in a good-tempered manner.

Adverb

good-temperedly (comparative more good-temperedly, superlative most good-temperedly)

  1. In a good-tempered manner.
    • You remember his gay old sister requested him to put off starving himself to death until she had returned from the festival of Ceres; alleging, that it would spoil her holiday if he refused to comply, as it was not permitted to appear in the procession immediately after the death of a relation; and...a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “[Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments] The Coliseum. A Fragment.”, in [Mary Wollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, The Works of Percy...
    • If Diogenes coming to life again could have rolled himself, tub and all, into Mr. Pecksniff’s parlour, and could have seen Tom Pinch as he sat on Mercy Pecksniff’s stool, with his plate and glass before him, he could not have faced it out, though in his surliest mood, but must have smiled...1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Comprises, among Other Important Matters, Pecksniffian and Architectural, an Exact Relation of the Progress Made by Mr. Pinch in the Confidence and...
    Antonyms:
    bad-temperedly

Antonyms of good-temperedly

Forms of good-temperedly

comparativemore good-temperedly
superlativemost good-temperedly

Origin of good-temperedly

From good-tempered + -ly.

Questions about good-temperedly

What does good-temperedly mean?
Good-temperedly means in a good-tempered manner.
What part of speech is good-temperedly?
Good-temperedly is an adverb.

Words near good-temperedly in the dictionary

  1. good-nights
  2. good-o
  3. good-size
  4. good-sized
  5. good-tempered
  6. good-temperedly
  7. good-temperedness
  8. good-time
  9. good-time Charley
  10. good-time Charlie
  11. good-time Charlies

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