chummy

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adjective chum·my \ ˈchə-mē \

Definition of chummy

chummier; chummiest

:quite friendly

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chummily

play \ˈchə-mə-lē\ adverb

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chumminess

play \ˈchə-mē-nəs\ noun

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Examples of chummy in a Sentence

She was getting chummy with the reporters.
the neighboring families know each other but are hardly chummy

Recent Examples of chummy from the Web

Seated a couple of feet away, Mayweather, suddenly chummy after weeks of school-yard name-calling, softly told him: the money.

— rick maese, chicagotribune.com, "While Floyd Mayweather heads back to retirement, Conor McGregor weighs his fighting options," 27 Aug. 2017
Verlander and Castellanos seemed upset with Martinez, who was chummy with Sanchez in the aftermath of the incident.

— george sipple, Detroit Free Press, "Tigers mum over Verlander/Martinez dustup after brawl with Yankees," 24 Aug. 2017
And long before their father struck up a bizarrely chummy relationship with Vladimir Putin, Sater was the one who introduced the future president to a byzantine world of oligarchs and mysterious money.

— andrew rice, Daily Intelligencer, "The Original Russia Connection," 3 Aug. 2017
After a chummy weekend summit with Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in April, where the two bonded over chocolate cake and Trump’s missile strike on Syria, the relationship seemed to be on sturdier footing than ever.

— bess levin, The Hive, "Beijing Is Back on Trump’s Bad Side," 2 Aug. 2017
The anti-Qatar bloc has long viewed Doha as too chummy with Iran, too provocative in its backing of Al Jazeera and similar media outlets, and too supportive of Islamist movements.

— eric trager, The Atlantic, "The Muslim Brotherhood Is the Root of the Qatar Crisis," 2 July 2017
But The New Yorker piece points out that their chummy relationship could have an increasingly far-reaching affect.

— kate storey, Esquire, "A Brief History of Donald Trump's Unsettling Relationship with the National Enquirer," 30 June 2017
Modi’s chummy overtures mark a stark change from years of being shunned by American officials because of religious violence in his home state of Gujarat.

— katy daigle, The Seattle Times, "Modi meets Trump with his usual greeting — bear hugs," 27 June 2017
Kelly’s segment on Jones, which appeared heavily edited even by TV’s time-conscious standards, turned out to be far from chummy.

— ellen gray, Philly.com, "Why Megyn Kelly shouldn't want to be the next Barbara Walters," 21 June 2017

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