humored

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   went alongverb

   Simple past and past participle of humor.

   He humored his grandmother by listening to the same story twice.

   Having humored the demanding guest all evening, she finally slipped away.

   Note

   The spelling never tells the two forms apart; the sentence does. Directly after its subject it is the simple past (she humored him). After have or had it forms a perfect (she had humored him), and after be it makes a passive (he was humored). The -or ending is the US spelling of humour, so writers who keep the -our ending use humoured for the same forms.

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   kind of moodadjectivein compounds

   Having a disposition or mood of the kind named by the word it is joined to.

   The talks stayed good-humored even when the two sides disagreed sharply.

   A sour-humored landlord met us at the door and demanded the rent in cash.

   Note

   The adjective nearly always travels with a partner in front: good-humored, ill-humored, sour-humored, hyphenated before a noun. The humor in these words is temper, not comedy, so a good-humored meeting is friendly and calm rather than funny. Keep it apart from humorous, which is about making people laugh; a good-humored speaker need not tell a single joke.

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   spoiledadjective

   Spoiled and indulged, in the way of a child who is always given what it wants.

   Similarspoiled, indulged, pampered, coddled

   Note

   Here the adjective grows straight out of the verb: a child humored at every turn becomes a humored child, and the word is not kind. Jane Austen uses it with open scorn in her youthful "Lesley Castle", writing of "a little humoured Brat". It goes before the noun just as spoiled does, and spoiled is the plainer word for the same child.

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