GOOD-NATUREDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good-naturedly mean? 

• GOOD-NATUREDLY (adverb)
  The adverb GOOD-NATUREDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a good-natured manner

  Familiarity information: GOOD-NATUREDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD-NATUREDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a good-natured manner

Pertainym:

good-natured (having an easygoing and cheerful disposition)

 Context examples 

“My dear Rosa,” interposed Mrs. Steerforth, laughing good-naturedly, “suggest some other supposition! James and I know our duty to each other better, I pray Heaven!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She owed her greatest relief to her friend Miss Lucas, who often joined them, and good-naturedly engaged Mr. Collins's conversation to herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Hermann says—" "Damn Hermann!" he broke out good-naturedly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He turned his head and blinked at the men who shouted, at the same time wagging his stump of a tail good-naturedly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Pickwick, the president, read the paper, which was filled with original tales, poetry, local news, funny advertisements, and hints, in which they good-naturedly reminded each other of their faults and short comings.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Why, then,” said the lawyer, good-naturedly, “the best thing we can do is to stay down here and speak with you from where we are.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Black” Burton, a man evil-tempered and malicious, had been picking a quarrel with a tenderfoot at the bar, when Thornton stepped good-naturedly between.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Holmes laughed good-naturedly.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two or three times he put his head into the galley and chaffed Mugridge good-naturedly, and once, this afternoon, he stood by the break of the poop and chatted with him for fully fifteen minutes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One Eye, with pointed, interested ears, laughed at her, and beyond, outlined against the white light, she could see the brush of his tail waving good-naturedly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)