good-tempered

It was at once affectionate and unsentimental, satirical and good-tempered, orthodox and highly intelligent.

It Was a Cheerful Home at the Austens'

It was at once affectionate and unsentimental, satirical and good-tempered, orthodox and highly intelligent.

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Casson's good-tempered account of the trip in Red Lacquer Days 1956 is contradicted by Ayer's memory of the "dislike which SS Spencer and I quickly came to feel for one another".

John Chinnery obituary

A big, simple, good-tempered man, slow to anger, who cut his food into tiny pieces and spoke with a slight lisping awkwardness because most of his teeth had been lost to battle or age.

Dark Moon of Avalon

A big, simple, good-tempered man, slow to anger, who cut his food into tiny pieces and spoke with a slight lisping awkwardness because most of his teeth had been lost to battle or age.

Dark Moon of Avalon

A big, simple, good-tempered man, slow to anger, who cut his food into tiny pieces and spoke with a slight lisping awkwardness because most of his teeth had been lost to battle or age.

Dark Moon of Avalon

Cobhar, whose name meant "foam," was good-tempered, but a sound, spirited 14-hand gelding, nonetheless, and a far cry from the brown pony.

Sick Cycle Carousel

After hundreds of hours of DVD viewing, gallons of industrial strength coffee and a fair few good-tempered arguments with yours truly and other members of the Spec team, it has fallen to Pete to select our 50 top films.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me

But I confess myself addicted to this soothing soup or ragout, its nursery friendliness, its good-tempered simplicity.

(Two Inches Wide) Of Ivory

After hundreds of hours of DVD viewing, gallons of industrial strength coffee and a fair few good-tempered arguments with yours truly and other members of the Spec team, it has fallen to Pete to select our 50 top films.

The Spectator's 50 Essential Films