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  • adverb In a chummy manner

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Examples

  • For extra closeness, the eldest is holding on to my upper arm, leaning in chummily, with all his weight on me.

    Diary of a separation 2011

  • The panel was also polite, the currentjustice secretary and his Labour predecessor chummily Ken-ing and Jack-ing each other.

    Ken Clarke's night of trial on Question Time in jail 2011

  • Giles Terera's Caliban is no threat: merely disobliging: his "Ban Ban Caliban" riff is diminished by being ironically chanted by two of the clowns as if they were the Andrews Sisters; his rift with Prospero too chummily resolved.

    Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review 2011

  • None of the other houses nestled chummily near hers; even her garage was unattached.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • None of the other houses nestled chummily near hers; even her garage was unattached.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • She smiled at me chummily, as though we were best buds, confidants.

    Kiss It Erin Downing 2010

  • She smiled at me chummily, as though we were best buds, confidants.

    Kiss It Erin Downing 2010

  • Writing to Air Marshal Richard Peck, the assistant chief of the Air Staff in London, he chummily dramatized his time in Hollywood, taking personal credit for “wangling the script” into the Disney Studios and boasting about the imminent book release, which he claimed was likely to sell half a million copies and thereby greatly benefit the RAF Benevolent Fund.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • The NSWMA, as we chummily call them, are amongst our favourites of all the solid wastes management associations out there.

    TLC Denies Us The Jon & Kate Plus 8 Bitchfight From Hell 2010

  • Things took a sharp turn with Senator Roland Burris 'starkly strange and awkward questions about propelling National ID cards and the needs of TSA directed chummily at Secretary Napolitano.

    Washington Seeks PASS Act as Real ID Act "D.O.A." 2009

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