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
Fog-Eyes A great-hearted gentleman not too proud to beg for the Greeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The great-hearted adventurers" who opened the West were replaced by men "trained in petty economies."
From Time Magazine Archive
South into Lakedaimon into the land where greens are wide for dancing Athena went, to put in mind of home her great-hearted hero’s honored son, rousing him to return.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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