English

Adverb

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

1. Alternative spelling of goodnaturedly

1. • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 4

     But here the woman saved me: I pretended a violent disorder of my head, and a feverish heat, that indisposed me too much to receive his embraces. He gave in to this, and good-naturedly desisted.

   • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:

     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.”