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magnanimous
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  • "Oh, before I forget…" He fished a stick of gum from his pocket, a parting gift, and held it out to Aziza with a stiff, magnanimous air.  (source)
    magnanimous = kind and generous
  • I would never have refused anyone who wanted to peek at my answers, I was magnanimous with my candy, and I wasn't stuck-up.  (source)
  • The Germans were too cultured and magnanimous a race, said the newspaper, to confine even parasites like the Jews to ghettos,  (source)
    magnanimous = kind and generous in spirit
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  • ...when she was given a chance to be magnanimous she agreed.  (source)
    magnanimous = kind and generous in spirit
  • Ford's father, magnanimously waving aside the clouds of suspicion that had inevitably settled around him, came to live on Betelgeuse Five, where he both fathered and uncled Ford;  (source)
  • "...Thanks, Max." I hadn't had anything to do with it, but I smiled and nodded: magnanimous Max.  (source)
    magnanimous = kind and generous
  • "Why, I'd be delighted," she said magnanimously,  (source)
    magnanimously = with a kind and generous spirit
  • (with magnanimous gesture).  (source)
    magnanimous = kind and generous in spirit
  • He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together.  (source)
  • He cut short my profuse apologies with a magnanimous wave of his hand,  (source)
  • As the chef prepares it," replied the Count magnanimously.†  (source)
    magnanimously = with a kind and generous in spirit
  • Stupid and cunning, ruthless and magnanimous-and that there must be some dominating factor that reconciles his two natures.  (source)
    magnanimous = kind and generous in spirit
  • "Don't worry about it with me," Bolt said, waving the air magnanimously.†  (source)
    magnanimously = with a kind and generous in spirit
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