goodly
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"The last time we had goodly numbers... was round about 2017, so it's great to see them now."
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2024
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
Grainger made sense because his wind band music usefully employed a goodly number of winds included in the 32 young musicians, and because you can’t have too many winds in a band.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022
Maybe that works better when you’re breathing the same air as the actor — something that’s been impossible for a goodly while.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2021
“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
Vocabulary lists containing goodly
The Tempest
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