easy-going
Britishadjective
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relaxed in manner or attitude; inclined to be excessively tolerant
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moving at a comfortable pace
an easy-going horse
Example Sentences
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Its owner, Mr. Pilkington, was an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season.
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Dad was an easy-going host, informal and gracious, and we tried to pattern ourselves after him.
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He was “of an easy-going innocent nature,” a reporter later observed, “he mistrusted nothing.”
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For a moment some old, flickering, here-and-gone feeling stirred in the General’s memory—the smell of wet cabbage leaves in a cottage garden, the sense of some easy-going, kindly place, long forgotten and lost.
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Etty, two and a half years younger, was a contrast to the easy-going, cheerful Annie.
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