magnanimously

Example Sentences

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Daphne and Eddie magnanimously turn the other cheek and then go back to lavishing one another with murmured compliments.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Could he be waiting for the summit to perhaps offer a supposedly magnanimously return to the grain deal, on slightly tweaked terms?

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2023

Cautious Lina can find a way to worry about anything, but magnanimously, she agrees to spend her summer in Rome.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

It sounds like this man is magnanimously apologizing for somebody else’s misunderstanding — which he should not have to do!

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2020

“To my employer, I leave my best pair of boots,” Bast continued magnanimously.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss