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

He is co-opted by the authorities, who magnanimously offer him the “chance to destroy those dreams of yours, along with any incriminating evidence of them.”

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

“It’s very understandable that the American people did not know what I was going on about,” O’Connor said in a 2002 interview, magnanimously, that touched on her assertions 10 years before.

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2018

“It’s only your imagination makes it different. But that’s all right,” he added magnanimously, “as long as it makes you feel so happy.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith