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• s  not easily irritated

• But, considering General Charles de Gaulle's recent choler, the French attitude was surprisingly good-temperedand too cogent to be ignored.
• The Wind in the Willows is built around these two eminently reasonable animals, who, like human beings before the Fall, manage to be good-tempered and highly civilized without ever .
• This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored fragments from human nature's rural rag bag.

• equable
• even-tempered
• placid

Quotes

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• Robin Cook in Independent
  It was good-tempered, not tearful,said Cook. "God knows, I'm in my fifties and I was brought up in a tough culture where men don't cry."