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

Highlights of Frumkin’s dark and cutting humor include an Elon Musk-esque billionaire inventor who magnanimously hands out drones to children begging for money and a tabloid referring to Orson as “L. Ron Hotboy.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 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’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