good-tempered
Speech parts
1. good-tempered - Adjective
2. good-tempered - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured.
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We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.
I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.
A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.
The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic. You notice it the instant you set foot on English soil. It is a land where the bus conductors are good-tempered and the policemen carry no revolvers.
an equable temper