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palsy-walsy adjective friendly, often with an undertone of insincerity US, 1937- Only this afternoon his gin partner and palsy-walsy competitor Big Ernie had been convicted for wholesaling the main line stuff. — Morton Cooper, High School Confidential, p. 110, 1958
- They used to treat you palsy-walsy. — Tom Wolfe, The Pump House Gang, p. 71, 1968
- I started shining up to Mother Jackson the best I could, trying to get palsy-walsy with him. — Joey V., Portrait of Joey, p. 149, 1969
- getting palsy-walsy with his fellow students to be invited to dinner and parties — Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, p. 81, 1972
- [I]n other words, the world notes that sometimes we are palsy-walsy with the bad guys and sometimes we want to rip their lungs out, depending on which stance serves our perceived interests at the time. — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, p. 4, 29 September 2002
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