How To Use Good-naturedly In A Sentence
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A smooth-faced, moon-faced young man was smiling at her good-naturedly.
Amateur Night
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It's limber and athletic, incredibly dancey, almost always on the move, bouncing along very good-naturedly.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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They disappeared into the crowded room, gibbering good-naturedly.
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For instance, during a sabbatical stay in Scotland, a Scotsman kidded me good-naturedly about Americans worshiping cars.
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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.
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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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They passed a wineshop, several of whose customers had spilled good-naturedly into the street.
The Mistaken Wife
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The lady's riding companion smiled good-naturedly and dismounted from his frisky dapple.
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A walrus-moustached council official presides over the ceremony in Slovenian, continually drifting off-piste, gesturing and chuckling good-naturedly.
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A great deal of time would have been lost if the haaf-boat had carried him into Boden voe, so Tom good-naturedly requested to be put ashore at the nearest point, determined to walk across the island to Moolapund.
Viking Boys
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Some celebrities squawk about this, but most of them concede, good-naturedly, that they are in the business of public image-making.
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When I expressed surprise that any one should be content to remain illiterate she laughed good-naturedly and told me that she could make the money to pay her many employees who looked after her business affairs.
Madeleine: An Autobiography
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My father and the other members of his foursome, when they spoke, did so in a telegraphic banter: They teased one another good-naturedly; they improvised nicknames.
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There was no space for dwellers in these shadowed lanes to rush from their houses before our car, when warned by the “choof, choof” of the motor as we rattled over the “agony stones,” that something extraordinary was coming; but mothers shrieked for their offspring, while young girls hailed their friends to the free show; and men, women, and children jostled each other good-naturedly in every window and door as we approached, pouring out in our wake, though seemingly half afraid even then that the dragon might take to charging back upon them.
The Car of Destiny
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He looked over at his fellow guards and saw them in the corner, dicing and conversing good-naturedly.
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He looks at the spectator good-naturedly and unintelligently, with the suspicious expression of an inveterate toper [habitual drinker].
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This Sally is nothing but a yawning cavity walking on hollow stilts," declared Nell, who "fussed" good-naturedly, just as her father did.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air
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Hardly ever, " laughed the widow, good-naturedly, "and I don't want to lose the chance.
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Asked to stand guard over good or treasure, they would good-naturedly hand everything over to a perfect stranger.
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The bankers on the other side of the table, Eliza and Franklin, chuckle good-naturedly.
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Christian's eyebrows rose good-naturedly and his bow shaped mouth formed a wistful smile.
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Perhaps that's the legacy of being the frontman, spending your early teens grinning good-naturedly on gormless kids' TV shows and in gormless pop magazines.
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Throughout our conversation, as one veteran good-naturedly needles the other, all the teen-angst details come out.
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A smooth-faced, moon-faced young man was smiling at her good-naturedly.
Amateur Night
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The Irish ranchers twitted me good-naturedly on my exploit, and patted me on the back until I felt that I had done something heroic.
Chapter 4
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"The transmission is shot, the brakes are on their last legs, and all things considered I don't think a person as successful as you should be tooling around in a beat-up old junker like this," the car will good-naturedly inform the owner.
