What does good-naturedly mean?
Good-naturedly means In a good-natured manner..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
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.
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.”
Later [Edwin] Meese, virtual seconds before he resigned, purported to take the whole T-shirt episode—you are not hallucinating—good-naturedly. “I take it as the joke I hope it was meant to be,” the then attorney general said.
Use good-naturedly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Good-naturedly means In a good-natured manner..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[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.
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