Example Sentences

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This produced an effect of narcissism leavened by good-heartedness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Is Christmas all about the goods or good-heartedness?

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2021

Ready not only to defend Helga’s warmth and good-heartedness, but to insist that I know that Helga, in her wisdom and kindness, never truly held a grudge against Anne Frank.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2019

But behind the hijinks, beer, smiles and good-heartedness is also a man who now finds himself battling Lyme disease.

From Washington Times • May 13, 2018

The red-headed boy was a mixture of good-heartedness and mischievousness that both delighted Nancy and horrified her.

From A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall by Marlowe, Amy Bell