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matily

adv. (context British English) friendlily, like a mate.

Usage examples of "matily".

They found that Acrefield Way was a straggling lane with Tudor cottages huddling matily between Georgian elegance and prim Victorian villas.

George supped with her, and the two of them sat matily in the parlour behind red curtains, and with a baize-covered parrot between them on the table, when the meal was over, George smoking, and Mrs.

After lunch they all sit matily around the scrubbed, no-nonsense, tables they make the most beautiful thing, a cushion of moss edged with silver cord: in the middle of it is a heart made of chincherinchee flower heads The ring rests in the middle of this heart.