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Recent Examples of Synonyms for good-humoredness
Noun
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Love the idea of orange nails but not ready for the brightness?—
Catharine Malzahn,
Glamour,
31 July 2025 -
Soy sauce, lime juice, oil and chiles provide umami, brightness, fat and heat.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 July 2025
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And their ambiguity is essential to their buoyancy.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
29 June 2025
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Often, the songs that drew on Carner’s darker, more cynical perspective were accentuated with the kind of buoyancy that only a child can stoke.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2025
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Breaking up the wearying journey, devotees gather for outbreaks of extravagant revelry – ground-shaking music and dancing fueled by devotion, ganja and alcohol, as befits in their eyes Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and renewal, to whom the festival is dedicated.—
Aishwarya S. Iyer,
CNN Money,
25 July 2025
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After a few days of revelry—going to sleep at 3 a.m., waking up at 6 a.m., bull runs, lunches, aperitivos, dances—my constitution was reeling.—
Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
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The free-living, hard-drinking Brett uses wit and jollity to mask her inner desperation.—
Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
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Some years at Cannes, the Med’s most effervescent seasonal kickoff, the bubbles and spice of the social froth provide the jollity.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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With her typical insouciance, however, Jones ignored the advice and went on with the show.—
Time,
Time,
10 July 2025
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But there is something wry and resigned lurking behind those chord changes, an insouciance to Dorian’s vocals, that suggests something deeper and bigger brewing — the sound of a fairly labyrinthine songwriting mind just starting to awaken to its potential.—
Jayson Greene,
Vulture,
30 May 2025
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“Good-humoredness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/good-humoredness. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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