goodly
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If you don’t pay at least a goodly chunk of your 2023 taxes by then, you will be penalized automatically, even if you file for an extension by Monday night.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024
"The last time we had goodly numbers... was round about 2017, so it's great to see them now."
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2024
He was optimistic that the sprinklers would save “a goodly number of them” from extreme heat, he said.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023
I also disappeared for a goodly while into Stephen Amidon’s taut domestic thriller “Locust Lane,” which is just coming out this month.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2023
“That is variable but a goodly number are in the ten- thousand- to twenty-thousand-dollar class.”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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The Tempest
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