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goodheartedness

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  • noun The quality of being goodhearted

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Examples

  • Once again, the real message is that white Americans can use Obama's victory to pat themselves on the back for their collective goodheartedness.

    Proudly Hail Obama's Rise As Something That Could Only Happen In America Renee 2009

  • Once again, the real message is that white Americans can use Obama's victory to pat themselves on the back for their collective goodheartedness.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Renee 2009

  • - We must not succumb to the idiotic goodheartedness.

    The Militarization and Annexation of North America 2007

  • KNOW the Lord will forgive him, because it was such goodheartedness in him to tell it.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

  • I entered his home believing I was quite without a champion—my mother, for all her beauty and goodheartedness, was a timid soul, far more likely to suffer a fit of the vapors than to defend me.

    Eighteen JAN BURKE 2002

  • I entered his home believing I was quite without a champion—my mother, for all her beauty and goodheartedness, was a timid soul, far more likely to suffer a fit of the vapors than to defend me.

    Eighteen JAN BURKE 2002

  • The gripping scene of Clarence's murder, in which he pleads with the consciences of his assailants and nearly succeeds in winning one of them over until he is cravenly struck down from behind, is designed to amplify Clarence's goodheartedness as opposed to the sinister and gloating evil of his younger brother.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • He took bankruptcy two or three times just because of his goodheartedness.

    Advise & Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota & the US Senate 1990

  • There was a warm goodheartedness in her that had nevertheless known resentment and tears, and faced limitless hate.

    Slan Van Vogt, A. E. 1946

  • So well set up, with such honest blue eyes, such a touch of stupidity, such a warm goodheartedness!

    The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1906

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