chummier; chummiest
: quite friendly
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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
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Special dinners: At the intimate and chummy TRP Taste in downtown Fort Lauderdale, executive chef Lyndsey Waters continues her five-course dinner collaboration series with Tarpon River Brewing’s resident beer master, Adam Fine, on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.
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Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
The democracy versus autocracy framing drew a stark contrast with Donald Trump, who as president took a narrowly transactional view of foreign policy, had chummy relationships with leaders like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and the Saudi royal family, and undermined democratic norms at home.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 20 May 2024
The sharks getting chummy with Silicon Valley are likely to be threatened eventually too.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 June 2024
Call them cigar bars, terraces, or smoking lounges, these spaces—which first flourished during the cigar boom of the 1990s—are a modern (and more inclusive) answer to the chummy gentleman’s clubs of the 19th century.
—Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
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Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
The democracy versus autocracy framing drew a stark contrast with Donald Trump, who as president took a narrowly transactional view of foreign policy, had chummy relationships with leaders like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and the Saudi royal family, and undermined democratic norms at home.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 20 May 2024
The sharks getting chummy with Silicon Valley are likely to be threatened eventually too.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 June 2024
Call them cigar bars, terraces, or smoking lounges, these spaces—which first flourished during the cigar boom of the 1990s—are a modern (and more inclusive) answer to the chummy gentleman’s clubs of the 19th century.
—Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
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“Chummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chummy. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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