amiably

• ““Watch out below!” he called amiably, then double-checked that the alligator clips were firmly in place, shut the service-box door, and shinnied back down the pole.”

  Kahawa

• “Come here, girl!" she called amiably in a quavery old-woman voice.”

  Legacy

• “But it's half an hour earlier," he protests, in a manner the interviewer calls "amiably disingenuous".”

  The Guardian: Media Monkey's Diary

• “He handled Palin deftly (which is to say amiably and without making a big deal of the fact that she wasn't actually answering the questions), and exhibited a clear grasp of what he was out there to do.”

  Charging RINO

• “Even when he was working on a shoestring, he revealed the kind of amiably creative flair that is often overlooked by film snobs in their unending quest for audience-unfriendly breakthroughs to punish the paying customers for their bourgeois tastes.”

  Burns' Comic Realism Remains, His Brothers Are Gone

• “These colleagues were as we had hoped amiably ruthless in discerning “opportunities for improvement” in that draft.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Grace

• “It's not exactly Alan Bennett, but it proceeds amiably enough from one well-worn double entendre to the next – and Tim Healy's transvestite barman alone banishes the temptation to channel-hop.”

  The Guardian: Tonight's TV highlights: Asian Gracefully | Benidorm | Friday Night Dinner | The Simpsons | Ron Sexsmith: Love Shines | Treme

• “Richard Tresvant is a very good friend of mine…despite the substantial age difference, Walter Bumgaarten replied amiably.”

  Simon & Schuster: Larger Than Lyfe

• “I open my car door and begin to get out -- but the third soldier pushes me gently back and then leans into the window, peering amiably. “And besides,” I continue, “there were no signs forbidding such photographs.”

  The Huffington Post: Lawrence Weschler: The Art of the Shakedown, From the Nile to the Potomac

• “Curtis listened amiably and offered to allow his name to be used on whatever letterhead, committee listing or invitation would help.”

  The Huffington Post: Tom Teicholz: The Man Who Was Tony Curtis

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