chummy
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Yet, the three — even Cavallari and Conrad, who were pitted against each other in the 2000s — were warm and chummy, cracking jokes and enthusiastically agreeing with one another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
When the two heads of government met at a summit in Egypt last October, Trump was chummy, playfully ribbing the tall Spanish leader about which of them would prevail on defense spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
A former economics professor, Jospin cast himself as a clean pair of hands compared to his conservative rival, the corruption-tainted but chummy and charismatic Jacques Chirac.
From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026
Even the stray shots at Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos in O’Brien’s monologue and short sketches about distracted viewers who don’t want to pay proper attention had the chummy air of being all in good fun.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2026
There was no way any future version of myself was chummy with Regan Fitz.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Holmes and Watson seem chummier than usual on a German-spy job for Queen Victoria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
Doesn’t get much quieter – or chummier – than a cozy little lunch with Bob on the screen porch overlooking the garden of his Georgetown manse, does it?
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2018
“You pull off a successful meeting, but at the same time, you’re not trying to pretend that you’re chummier than you really are.”
From Washington Times ● May 3, 2017
But their demeanor was more businesslike than the chummier encounters between Karzai and Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush.
From Reuters ● May 13, 2010
I wish that I were chummier with the Irish saints.
From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Ferber, Edna
Sure, maybe some of them aren’t on the chummiest of terms, but that’s not what put the debate at risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2019
That led to a fairly uncomfortable set of episodes in which the competing interests of TV’s chummiest cohosts were revealed.
From Time ● Apr. 26, 2016
In this chummy phase of the presidential race, Graham, 59, is proving to be the chummiest of a large and expanding Republican field.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2015
Still, I think the chummiest bath-rooms are those with a bay-window; very reprehensible those which have no hooks on which to hang your pajamas and razor strop.
From Turns about Town by Holliday, Robert Cortes
So we ain't the chummiest trio that could be got together.
From Torchy, Private Sec. by Lincoln, F. Foster
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