good-humoured

• “We have never seen her so relaxed and good-humoured.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Footnotes to the Queen's Irish visit

• “His powerfully muscular frame, topped by a mop of blond hair and his trademark moustache, was a familiar sight in climbing magazines for 35 years, but even at the height of his fame, which in Europe was considerable, he remained himself: approachable, good-humoured and endlessly enthusiastic.”

  The Guardian: Kurt Albert obituary

• “In an interview with O Globo she said she wanted her officers to be "polite, clean-shaven, good-humoured and kind".”

  The Guardian: Rio de Janeiro appoints first female police chief

• “The story makes good use of paradox and the butterfly effect, but its greatest charms lie in Si's good-humoured observations of old New York and the love story that gradually develops between Si and the beautiful Julia, who doesn't believe Si when he tells her he's a time traveller.”

  The Guardian: The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction

• “The Italian might have been in a rage at that instant in the practice session but he came across as good-humoured afterwards.”

  The Guardian: Fabio Capello: The feared ogre who became England's nurturer | Kevin McCarra

• “Six years before she had been a pretty, good-humoured girl, whom every one loved and caressed.”

  Chapter 6

• “Oh!, you, the jolly good-humoured people of Pernes-les-Fontaines, you said the magic words to that desperate wife stuck in the queue, eyes fixed on her impatient husband outside.”

  pressé - French Word-A-Day

• “Will there be looting?" he asked excitedly, having already compared the good-humoured Vaughan to Alan Partridge.”

  The Guardian: England launch World Cup 2015 with Daleks and Angel of the North | Robert Kitson

• “But the park is still ours," protest leaders added defiantly.10.00pm: It looks like things are pretty quiet and good-humoured at Zuccotti Park this evening.”

  The Guardian: Occupy Wall Street: Zuccotti Park re-opens - as it happened

• “Many people who used to brandish their celeb weekly as a badge of good-humoured ordinariness are now too ashamed to do so.”

  The Guardian: Will the Leveson inquiry kill celebrity magazines?

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