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good-naturedly

good-naturedly adverb: in a good-natured manner.

Adverb

good-naturedly (comparative more good-naturedly, superlative most good-naturedly)

  1. In a good-natured manner.
    • [H]ere the woman ſav’d me: I pretended a violent diſorder of my head, and a feveriſh heat, that indiſpos’d me too much to receive his embraces. He gave into this, and good-naturedly deſiſted.1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, pages...
    • Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings

Forms of good-naturedly

comparativemore good-naturedly
superlativemost good-naturedly
alternative formgoodnaturedly

Origin of good-naturedly

From good-natured + -ly.

Questions about good-naturedly

What does good-naturedly mean?
Good-naturedly means in a good-natured manner.
What part of speech is good-naturedly?
Good-naturedly is an adverb.

Words near good-naturedly in the dictionary

  1. good-morning
  2. good-morninged
  3. good-morninging
  4. good-mornings
  5. good-natured
  6. good-naturedly
  7. good-naturedness
  8. good-neighborliness
  9. good-neighbourliness
  10. good-neighbourly
  11. good-night

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