Sample Sentences formagnanimous (editor-reviewed)
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He was magnanimous toward those he conquered.magnanimous = kind and generous in spirit
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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)magnanimous = kind and generous
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He only knew that Ender had beaten him, and then rubbed his nose in it by being magnanimous. (source)magnanimous = kind and generous in spirit
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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
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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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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
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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)
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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)
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"No, my good hagling," said Rasmussen magnanimously. (source)magnanimously = with 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
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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)
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(with magnanimous gesture). (source)
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I gesture magnanimously for him to continue.† (source)
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Stupid and cunning, ruthless and magnanimous-and that there must be some dominating factor that reconciles his two natures. (source)
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"You can go now, Cassie," he said magnanimously.† (source)
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