Sample Sentences for
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
  • 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
  • She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.  (source)
    magnanimous = kind and generous
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  • DOOLITTLE [sad but magnanimous] They played you off very cunning, Eliza, them two sportsmen.  (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)
  • When Becky told her father, in strict confidence, how Tom had taken her whipping at school, the Judge was visibly moved; and when she pleaded grace for the mighty lie which Tom had told in order to shift that whipping from her shoulders to his own, the Judge said with a fine outburst that it was a noble, a generous, a magnanimous lie—a lie that was worthy to hold up its head and march down through history breast to breast with George Washington's lauded Truth about the hatchet!  (source)
  • "No, my good hagling," said Rasmussen magnanimously.  (source)
    magnanimously = with kind and generous in spirit
  • ...when she was given a chance to be magnanimous she agreed.  (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)
  • (with magnanimous gesture).  (source)
  • I gesture magnanimously for him to continue.†  (source)
  • Stupid and cunning, ruthless and magnanimous-and that there must be some dominating factor that reconciles his two natures.  (source)
  • "You can go now, Cassie," he said magnanimously.†  (source)
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