Positive character trait
Magnanimous
Generous, fair, and free from resentment toward others.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Praises a rival's work in public, including work that beat their own.
- After winning, offers the losing side a role, a thank-you or a fair hearing instead of gloating.
- Lets go of an old slight at the moment they are in a position to repay it.
Fits when someone acts generously toward a rival or person who has wronged them
Not when a power imbalance makes the gesture patronizing or accountability is still needed
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: it is a literary word, at home in a speech, a tribute or a story, and it sounds grand on a resume. Describe how you worked with a former rival, or let a reference say it.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is magnanimous in competition: after [winning a contested decision or losing a bid], they [publicly credited the other side or invited a rival onto the project], and the working relationship held.
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Report card comment [Name] was generous in winning the class election and invited the runner-up to help lead the first project.
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In a story, shown not told She had won the seat by eleven votes. Her first call that night was to the man she had beaten, to ask him to chair the budget committee.
Her magnanimous reply praised the rival whose argument had defeated hers.
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