good-temperedly

English

Etymology

From good-tempered +‎ -ly.

Adverb

good-temperedly (comparative more good-temperedly, superlative most good-temperedly)

1. In a good-tempered manner.

   Antonym: bad-temperedly

   • a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “[Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments] The Coliseum. A Fragment.”, in [Mary Wollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, new edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 44, column 2:

     You remember his gay old sister requested him to put off starving himself to death until she had returned from the festival of Ceres; alleging, that it would spoil her holiday if he refused to comply, as it was not permitted to appear in the procession immediately after the death of a relation; and how good-temperedly the sage acceded to her request.

   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Comprises, among Other Important Matters, Pecksniffian and Architectural, an Exact Relation of the Progress Made by Mr. Pinch in the Confidence and Friendship of the New Pupil”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 70:

     If Diogenes coming to life again could have rolled himself, tub and all, into Mr. Pecksniff’s parlour, and could have seen Tom Pinch as he sat on Mercy Pecksniff’s stool, with his plate and glass before him, he could not have faced it out, though in his surliest mood, but must have smiled good-temperedly.

   • [1900], Ethel Turner, “Ten at Table”, in Three Little Maids, London; Melbourne, Vic.; Toronto, Ont.: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, part II (Scribbling Days), page 200:

     [H]e wore the elaborate cap dauntlessly at the school match, and only laughed good-temperedly when his fellows chaffed.