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"Lois punctuates with exclamation points," Gifford explained good-naturedly, meaning to take the sting out of Dr. Howe's reproof, but hurting her instead.
John Ward, Preacher Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901
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But he good naturedly took full advantage of it, and turned it around into something even funnier.
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He had always been irreligious, scoffing good-naturedly at the sky-pilots and their immortality of the soul.
Chapter 3 2010
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"Now's the time for that new and expensive engine of yours," Grief jeered good-naturedly.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010
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Comedian Andy Samberg, who plays "Rahmbo" on Saturday Night Live, turned up at a fund raiser last week to good naturedly imitate the tough mayoral candidate who knows a lot of four letter words.
Sugar Rautbord: Man on Five: The Chicago Mayoral Race Sugar Rautbord 2011
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No they good-naturedly pause, to think, to ponder its barbed and razor-like essence, and a certainly a few wish that it would just go away, but a majority I would say are genuinely glad to encounter its steadfast existence.
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But at least he seems to have dealt with this issue very good-naturedly … gotta applaud him for that!
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I get down on the floor and join in, the boys good-naturedly each giving me “a bit.”
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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She started teasing me very good-naturedly about the fact that my wife and I had traveled 32.4 miles to that hospital in the middle of the night to have our baby.
A conversation with bestselling author Chris Bohjalian about his novel, Skeletons at the Feast 2010
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Comedian Andy Samberg, who plays "Rahmbo" on Saturday Night Live, turned up at a fund raiser last week to good naturedly imitate the tough mayoral candidate who knows a lot of four letter words.
Sugar Rautbord: Man on Five: The Chicago Mayoral Race Sugar Rautbord 2011
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