chummy
adjective
friendly; intimate; sociable.
chumminess
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a word derived from
chummy.
Example Sentences
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The chumminess among some of the gilded people in Epstein’s circle has landed at an acutely populist moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
He pushed a free trade deal forward in no small part due to his chumminess with U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Did it amplify Washington’s worst impulses — the chumminess, the insular tone-deafness, the willingness to let lobbyists pick up the tab?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
Broadway’s god of mixed emotions, he is captured in Max’s set of interviews and spare commentaries in all his irascible tenderness — his chumminess on display along with his crabbiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
His glad-handing, varsity chumminess was totally alien and therefore suspect; then, too, he studied the classics, which are certainly harmless enough but which still provoke the raised eyebrow in some circles.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
