as in honorably
in a manner befitting a person of the highest character and ideals
magnanimously decided to forgive her former classmates, who had treated her so badly
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Recent Examples of magnanimously
My For You page is a shrine to snatched young women magnanimously sharing their tips for taut faces.
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Georgia Casey, Allure, 6 Feb. 2026
Mamdani magnanimously noted the president’s high support in 2024 for a Republican in New York.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Georgia Casey, Allure, 6 Feb. 2026
Mamdani magnanimously noted the president’s high support in 2024 for a Republican in New York.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for magnanimously
Adverb
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Several Kennedys have served honorably and without scandal.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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Buzzell served eight months in Iraq and Kuwait before being honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in 2009.—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
20 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Just weeks after heroically saving a neighbor’s choking 1-year-old girl, an NYPD officer was at it again, saving the life of a 2-year-old boy who had stopped breathing in his Bronx home.—
Barry Williams,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2026
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First into his life comes Jessie involved in a shipwreck with her uncle, a past colleague of Mason’s, who drowns in a vicious storm and almost takes Jessie down with him before she is heroically rescued from near death by Mason, who brings her out of the drink and then back to life.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Magnanimously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/magnanimously. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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