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  • adjective Alternative spelling of good-sized.

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Examples

  • So as they passed each landmark, Loaf would offer his opinion of the place—You never buy your sheets from the weavers in that town, they make them all too small to tuck in tight on a goodsized bed.

    Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

  • She returned home with a goodsized steak, which should have been enough to satisfy my grandfather and feed some of her hungry brood.

    This Family of Mine VICTORIA GOTTI 2009

  • Near the end of May, the sand cherry (Cerasus pumila) adorned the sides of the path with its delicate flowers arranged in umbels cylindrically about its short stems, which last, in the fall, weighed down with goodsized and handsome cherries, fell over in wreaths like rays on every side.

    Walden 2004

  • The eyes in which a tear and a smile strove ever for the mastery were of the dimensions of a goodsized cauliflower.

    Ulysses 2003

  • After unloading their tools in the hall, they split up, doing their best not to trip over each other—it was actually a goodsized bedroom, but with six of them working there, the space seemed impossibly cramped.

    Sin City Max Allan Collins 2002

  • For he who is worthy of little and thinks himself worthy of little is temperate, but not proud; for pride implies greatness, as beauty implies a goodsized body, and little people may be neat and well-proportioned but cannot be beautiful.

    The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

  • After unloading their tools in the hall, they split up, doing their best not to trip over each other—it was actually a goodsized bedroom, but with six of them working there, the space seemed impossibly cramped.

    Sin City Max Allan Collins 2002

  • After unloading their tools in the hall, they split up, doing their best not to trip over each other—it was actually a goodsized bedroom, but with six of them working there, the space seemed impossibly cramped.

    Sin City Max Allan Collins 2002

  • The room was really cramped, no place for two goodsized, grown-up men to be.

    Along Came a Spider Patterson, James, 1947- 1993

  • When the last hank lay upon the ground there stretched out behind them a trail of fur sufficient to fill a couple of goodsized mattresses.

    The Time of the Transference Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987

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