matey
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It doesn't match his public persona of the matey, personable, empathetic royal.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2023
He can be matey or imperious as the fancy takes him.
From Golf Digest ● May 5, 2020
His discussions of Gorey’s work tend to be brief and shallow, and the writing is annoyingly matey.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
He relished being matey with the ultras and was seemingly blase about their darker dealings.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2016
Paul turned to the photographer and made a remark in a matey undertone, as though they were sharing a pint in a pub.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
These onstage mateys may not be the Rockettes, but who needs a toe-tapping tin soldier number when you can have a pirate duel with candy canes?
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2014
Their parrots, their peg legs, their eye patches; their planks for walking, their X'ed spot-markings; their swashbuckling ways and way of talking; their "Shiver me timbers!" and "Avast there, mateys!"
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2014
“Arr roight, mateys, best dumpen this lot whurr it comed from.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
We at length received our rudder from the hands of the dockyard mateys.
From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan
Who’s been looking after the dock mateys below, seeing to the stowage?”
From Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea by William Heysham Overend
