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

They certainly were not going to drink it now, and so it was magnanimously gifted to the Americans by Jack Warner, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 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 is not known whether the anonymous restorer was the original thief. That would seem plausible, but the Princeton catalogue ambiguously and perhaps magnanimously lists the letters as ‘a gift of anonymous’.”

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2018

Bunny waved his hand magnanimously and turned over the check, rummaging in a pocket as he studied it.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt