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Webster 1913 Edition
Good-naturedly
Goodˊ-na′tured-ly
,adv.
With mildness of temper.
Webster 1828 Edition
Good-naturedly
GOOD-NA'TUREDLY
,adv.
Definition 2024
good-naturedly
good-naturedly
See also: goodnaturedly
English
Adverb
good-naturedly (comparative more good-naturedly, superlative most good-naturedly)
- Alternative spelling of goodnaturedly
- 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.”
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 4