feel-good

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Recent Examples of feel-good The event will feature BBQ (hamburgers, hot dogs and all the fixings), great company and feel-good music in a friendly atmosphere, organizers said. Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025 But playful, electronic reimaginings of Grandma’s feel-good tunes and funny pop culture sound bites weren’t getting us anywhere past Havre de Grace. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025 Saginaw football completes stellar turnaround The Rough Riders had the feel-good story of the year. Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2025 The research found that these consumers were particularly drawn to feel-good toys with top-gaining properties reflecting trends that tap into mindfulness and better mental health. Alexandra Pastore, Footwear News, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for feel-good
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feel-good
Adjective
  • Phaedra gives us a nostalgic update on her youngest son, Dylan, a.k.a.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 23 June 2025
  • Enjoy the nostalgic flavors of childhood once again.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • Awards prognostication is similarly fuzzy too, although technical noms will be its strongest play.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 June 2025
  • Sometimes the mission has been fuzzy or concealed: not long after the White House deployed seven hundred marines to Los Angeles, purportedly to help quell the protests against immigration raids, photos spread of them detaining a protester.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • Aries is bold, pioneering and direct, while Neptune is dreamy, elusive and idealistic.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 18 June 2025
  • Unlike the dreamy, colorful Impressionists whose work was the talk of the capital, Cézanne’s experimental painting had trouble finding a sweet spot with the public, critics, and collectors.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • Where to watch: Disney+ 'Straw' Tyler Perry's melodramatic thriller depicts the worst day a parent could ever have.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 June 2025
  • Yet these persuasive quiet bits sit within the larger shape of a book that was meant to be melodramatic and violent.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • When the sun journeys through sentimental Cancer, there is a greater focus on home, family and emotional stability.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 June 2025
  • This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.
    Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Yet, Bronson still stood out, with his alternately creepy and moony portrayal of a man biding his time dating Wood’s mother while vying for the younger woman’s attention.
    Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
Adjective
  • When Rudd, 55, appeared on Fallon's late night show to promote his new A24 movie Death of a Unicorn on Thursday, March 27, Fallon, 50, noted that Rudd has performed in just about every genre of film, television and theater one could imagine — except for the soapiest of soap operas.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • There is just cause for the soapier parts: Manet was married, and Morisot wed his brother.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • There is always the wide-brim sun hat, which brings a real level of drama and panache to every occasion—and can be subverted from its saccharine ways—just look at how Alessandro Michele paired his at Valentino with a pair of groovy trousers and an opulent cropped jacket on the runway.
    Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 5 June 2025
  • Despite that high percentage of rye, this bourbon reads as quite sweet on the palate—never saccharine, to be clear, but pleasantly so with notes of vanilla, flamed custard, maple, brown sugar, and milk and dark chocolate.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 June 2025

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“Feel-good.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feel-good. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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