goodwilled

comparative more goodwilled · superlative most goodwilled

1. Exhibiting or indicative of goodwill.

   They also liked the young gentlemen and wished them happy lives. So we ambled on, feeling ecstactically how casual, amiable, and goodwilled the world in the market is. They work hard there.

   1927, The Exile

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   His talks with Minister Shevardnadze were open and goodwilled. The president said that the Bulgarian delegation described the catastrophic situation of the Bulgarian economy a result not only of the crisis in the Persian Gulf, but also of […]

   1990, Daily Report: East Europe

   Many Blacks oppose adoption by White parents of Black children because they see such adoptions as inevitable "cultural genocide." That is, most Blacks understand the limits of White liberalism; no matter how goodwilled […]

   2000, Sharon Rush, Loving Across the Color Line: A White Adoptive Mother Learns about Race, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 137

   She just did – A pause then, thoughtful, bemused, but goodwilled. The medical staff were obviously pleased for Alice, but something more was affecting them. Her quiet serenity was infectious.

   2011, James Herbert, Shrine, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN

   He was always with the best knights who were the most loved by the king . . . and he was loved by each man in the king's court . . . it was so courteous and gentle and meek-tempered and goodwilled.

   2013, Sarah M. Anderson, Karen Swenson, The Cold Counsel: The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth, Routledge, →ISBN, page 250

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of goodwill