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good-humouredly en · ADV

Etymology

From good-humoured + -ly.

Meanings

1. (UK) In an amiable, cheerful, or pleasant manner.
   • The Glaswegians bore good-humouredly the mishaps which occasionally disrupted the services during the first month. 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The Glasgow debacle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 66:
   • He had quite the sense that she knew things he didn't, and though this was a concession that, in general, he found not easy to make to women, he made it now as good-humouredly as if it lifted a burden. 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
   • Challenger slapped his colleague good-humouredly upon the shoulder. 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Time of Death”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 55:

Forms

Antonyms

ill-humouredly · bad-humouredly