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chummy

[chuhm-ee] / ˈtʃʌm i /


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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

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

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s charm offensive with President Trump seemed to be working when the two men had a chummy Oval Office meeting two weeks ago, and aides held talks to lower American tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Small and chummy, the decor was thrift-store chic, and the food was outstanding.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

“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

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

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


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