Good-humoured synonyms

Yet, in spite of all, his jovial disposition and good-humoured cynicism saved him from unpopularity, and rendered his death an occasion of mourning.

They are a thrifty and industrious people, prolific and devoted to their offspring, good-humoured, quick-tempered and impressionable.

It is a good-humoured satire upon marriage, the devil being forced to admit that hell itself is preferable to his wife's company.

" It seemed," wrote Richard Cumberland, " as if a whole century had been stepped over in the passage of a single scene; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, 1 In the subsequent Apology addressed to the Critical Reviewers, Churchill revenged himself for the slight which he supposed Garrick to have put upon him, by some spiteful lines, which, however, Garrick requited by good-humoured kindness.

In general, the people are lively, good-humoured and ready-witted, fond of pleasure, lazy and extremely superstitious.