chummy
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The episode, which is titled “Burying the Hatchet” and aired in full Sunday, was a relatively chummy public reunion that dwelled little on the origins of their rift.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
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
Variety shared its account of Brown and Harbour gamely presenting a chummy front in a recent red carpet appearance.
From Salon ● 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
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
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 Robert Cortes Holliday
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
