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Examples
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Mick: creaky and plaintive; Keith: slurred and chuckly; Charlie: crunchy and, oddly, Billy Braggesque.
Soft Power; The Media Show; Last Orders at the Spinning Disc; Exile of the Stones 2010
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Occasssionally bust-a-gut funny, it's mostly kinda chuckly and warm, strange for a Kevin Smith movie.
A Perfect Day Steven Barnes 2009
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SO chuckly and realize THEY are playing knuckleheads, say thanks for the gauge and ask if THEY are using their properly to do THEIR part ... hey experts have said it WOULD save approx.
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Is it just an attempt to imitate the chuckly, style-referential parentheticals with which the reporter was permitted to clutter the piece (charming? cloying?), or is the Corrections editor keen to get a plug in for the New York Times Manual of Style, to, in effect, steal a little of The Elements of Style's thunder on its 50th birthday?
Melissa Kirsch: New York Times CorrectionWatch: Style Wars 2009
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I think you're being taken in by his chuckly, amiable personality, Ann.
"What one's sin is, means it's missing the mark. It's missing the bull's eye, the perfect point." Ann Althouse 2007
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Stevenson, smiling a chuckly smile, said, “I hope not.”
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Being the wordy fellow that i am, I couldn't let an opportunity to yak go by, so I started replying to the heads up e-mails with chuckly little things about the bass guitarist, or the new sound board they were using.
outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2001
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And then, as she held him close to her in the darkness, suddenly Jims laughed – a real, gurgly, chuckly, delighted, delightful laugh.
Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921
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The chuckly one grinned and removed his soft gray hat, held it against his generous equator, and bowed so low as to set him puffing a little afterward.
Jean of the Lazy A 1915
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Plainly, the chuckly Mr. Burns was taken at a disadvantage.
Jean of the Lazy A 1915
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