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a friendly manner — especially in a difficult situation- It was an amicable divorce.
- The two countries have a productive and amicable relationship.
- Although we disagree, I think we can reach an amicable compromise.
- They've split as amicably as possible.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- Their conversation had begun amicably enough, a simple discussion of who would take care of the cat while they were both out of town: she in Indianapolis for a concert, he in Lexington to help his mother.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- Her other affairs had ended differently, swiftly or slowly, amicably or not, but none with this element of uneasiness.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- She says it's because their divorce is amicable (um, no) and Seany and I need a father figure in our lives, but all they ever do is fight.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- Still, when the tape ended, she had forced herself to sit down and count up her affairs—short-lived and long, passionate and detached, bitter and amicable—over the years.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- They parted amicably, and Smith went, of all places, to the East, signing on as trainer for cosmetic queen Elizabeth Arden Graham.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- [Malone and Ramsden go out very amicably through the little gate.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- Arya said, "I would hope that the two. of you could come to an amicable agreement, and—".Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- Promptly, inexplicably, with amicability, gratefully it was declined.James Joyce -- Ulysses
- Dinner's in the fridge," she said in a slightly more amicable tone.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- " The guests offer an amicable laugh at Hilly's plug.Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
- Far from amicably, it appears.Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler
- 'That's quite true, Madame Mantalini,' said Miss Knag, with whom her late employer had secretly come to an amicable understanding on this point.Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
- I said, reaching over and shaking his shoulder amicably as I thought.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- Jim told me he had been received at first with an abject display of the most amicable sentiments.Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
- The reunion of the Adamses and Jefferson in New York was appropriately amicable.David McCullough -- John Adams
- Colonel Cathcart demanded, and then smiled amicably.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
amicably = in a friendly manner
amicably = in a friendly manner