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good-naturedly

[ US /ˈɡʊdˈneɪtʃɝdɫi/ ]
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  1. in a good-natured manner

How To Use good-naturedly In A Sentence

  • A smooth-faced, moon-faced young man was smiling at her good-naturedly. Amateur Night
  • It's limber and athletic, incredibly dancey, almost always on the move, bouncing along very good-naturedly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Especially droll was the situation of the huge fat Captain S., who, puffing and smiling good-naturedly, with legs dragging on the ground, rode pickaback on the feeble little Lieutenant O.
  • Offutt's goods had not arrived when Mr. Lincoln reached New Salem; and he "loafed" about, so those who remember his arrival say, good-naturedly taking a hand in whatever he could find to do, and in his droll way making friends of everybody. McClure's Magazine December, 1895
  • But, although they "chaffed" them, the kind people helped them none the less good-naturedly in completing their equipment, the old captain's Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
  • Yet it is the Britons who Greene has good-naturedly fussed over and flattered this season, praising their potential and pointing out the danger they pose him in Sydney.
  • They disappeared into the crowded room, gibbering good-naturedly.
  • For instance, during a sabbatical stay in Scotland, a Scotsman kidded me good-naturedly about Americans worshiping cars.
  • I take the ribbing good-naturedly, because my coworkers are genuinely decent professionals; they treat me with respect and kindness and their comments are not directed at me.
  • That version is that Milton, good-naturedly and perhaps taken by surprise, allowed his wife to go home for two months at her own request, or the request of her relatives, before he had been three months married, and that it was the insult of her nonreturn that revealed to him his mistake in her, and drove him into his speculations about divorce. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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