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chummy

[chuhm-ee] / ˈtʃʌm i /


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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

They by all accounts had a pretty chummy relationship.

From Slate Feb. 4, 2026

He clapped Matthias on the shoulder in a chummy way.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

His only absences from home he accounted for as visits to Winstay, his pal of the campaign, with whom he had got chummier than ever since the affair of the cattle-guard.

From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill

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

In it occurs this sentence: "The college girl is grammatical in speech, but she has the jolliest, chummiest jargon of slang that ever rolled from under a pink tongue."

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey

Still, that didn’t prevent them from being the chummiest of mortals on the tennis court and in the billiard-room. 

From The Toys of Peace, and other papers by Saki




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