disposition

When Sophia was born in late February 2009, at first they just marveled at her sweet disposition and bright, expressive eyes.

A cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside….

"We can see a change in dishonest disposition over that decade or so," he says.

So, no, there’s nothing wrong with a little libbing out if it means practicing good manners and keeping a generally friendly disposition.

Take 2008’s “Happy-Go-Lucky” about a perennial optimist whose cheery disposition irks everyone around her; or 1996’s “Secrets & Lies,” a tale of hidden secrets and — you guessed it! — lies.