ADJECTIVE
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being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
another minute I'd have been fine
an all-right movie
is everything all right?
everything's fine
things are okay
the passengers were shaken up but are all right
dinner and the movies had been fine
How To Use hunky-dory In A Sentence
- I became aware not all was hunky-dory after handling a reader's mortgage complaint.
- He can't show up and expect things to be so hunky-dory between us.
- Everything must be hunky-dory over there now, right?
- Everything was hunky-dory at my last job," Jim says of MediPet, a maker of veterinary supplies such as narrow tongue depressors used to give throat exams to kitty-cats. For Chronic Reduplicators, Things Aren't Hunky-Dory
- She believes that everything in life can't be hunky-dory all the time.
- The thing reportedly couldn't find its critical paths and gave off false signals that everything was hunky-dory when it wasn't.
- This shitstorm is the direct and predictable result of conservative ideology: the belief that all the evil in the world results from evil dictators running strong governments, and that if you just invade, kill the dictator, and eviscerate the government, and send in big corporate cronies on multibillion-dollar contracts to build oil refineries and gated housing complexes, then everything else will be just hunky-dory and you’ll have Southern California in no time. Matthew Yglesias » Stabbing and Backs
- That's not to say everything is hunky-dory.
- Just as you always do when everything's hunky-dory, hey Rene?
- You go out and for three or four pints it is all hunky-dory, then things start to deteriorate.