chummy
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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
Earlier this month, emails released from a tranche of files about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein revealed a chummy relationship between Epstein and former treasury secretary and president of Harvard Larry Summers.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
“You should cool it with her. Y’know? You’ve been real chummy with her lately. You don’t mean nothin’ by it, but she’s getting the wrong message, know what I mean?
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
“It wouldn’t be an album launch for me without this young lady,” Styles told the audience, his tone slightly chummier and less awestruck than it was at the Troubadour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2019
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
Well, as time went on, Olivia and Augustus got chummier and chummier.
From The Depot Master by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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, 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
While doing this in the chummiest sort of way, it was very easy to tell B'lindy that she had eaten lots of raised biscuits but never any raised biscuits like she'd had at Happy House!
From Happy House by Jane D. Abbott
