good-humouredly

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1. UKIn an amiable, cheerful, or pleasant manner.

   Challenger slapped his colleague good-humouredly upon the shoulder.

   1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Time of Death”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 55

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   He had quite the sense that she knew things he didn't, and though this was a concession that, in general, he found not easy to make to women, he made it now as good-humouredly as if it lifted a burden.

   1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC

   The Glaswegians bore good-humouredly the mishaps which occasionally disrupted the services during the first month.

   1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The Glasgow debacle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 66