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English
Adverb
good-naturedly (comparative more good-naturedly, superlative most good-naturedly)
- Alternative spelling of goodnaturedly
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: G. Fenton , →OCLC:But here the woman saved me: I pretended a violent disorder of my head, and a feverish heat, that indisposed me too much to receive his embraces. He gave in to this, and good-naturedly desisted.
1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”