great-hearted
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- great-heartedness noun
Example Sentences
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Clive Barnes of The Times called it “a sprawling, rambunctious, great-hearted show.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2021
Baseball has long seen itself as America’s game, a game as great-hearted, humble and fundamentally decent as America itself.
From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2017
But perhaps the most surprising entry in Dante's catalog of "great-hearted souls" was a figure "solitary, set apart."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. R. is a great-hearted woman, in spite of her manifest ineptitudes .
From Time Magazine Archive
When prayers were said and all the grain was scattered great-hearted Thrasymedes in a flash swung the axe, at one blow cutting through the neck tendons.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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