matey
Example Sentences
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It doesn't match his public persona of the matey, personable, empathetic royal.
From BBC
“You don’t get matey with the Queen,” recalled former British prime minister Tony Blair.
From Washington Post
Former prime minister Tony Blair wrote in his memoirs, too, that she might be “matey with you, but don’t try to reciprocate or you get ‘The Look.’
From Washington Post
He can be matey or imperious as the fancy takes him.
From Golf Digest
Too much gravity and you sound like a horseman of the apocalypse, but matey ironies have begun to sound hollow.
From The Guardian
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