The phrase "asked friendly" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically intended to convey that someone asked in a friendly manner, but the construction is awkward.
Example: "She asked friendly if I needed help with my project."
Alternatives: "asked in a friendly way" or "inquired warmly".
His campaign has asked friendly county officials to send it lists of voters requesting absentee ballots.
Mr. Lazio was asked friendly and routine questions about the state of his Senate campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he responded cheerfully about the race.
In Washington, Obama administration officials said they had asked friendly Arab countries with ties to Hamas, which the United States and Israel regard as a terrorist group, to use their influence to seek a way to defuse the hostilities.
In a question-and-answer session with the audience, Mrs. Clinton called on several people with raised hands; some of them asked friendly questions about policy, and one man pressed her on trade issues.
Ask friendly questions about what people do during lunch.
We'll ask friendly countries to take a few, but you will end up having to let most go free in the United States.
Once the fare, Michael Enright, a 21-year-old film student who had been recently trailing Marines in Afghanistan, settled in the back, he started asking friendly enough questions: Where was the driver from?
Even today, Dawood, whose father was employed by the oil company, recalls Saddam's visit a bit giddily: he was handsome in his olive-drab military uniform, and paused to admire the house and ask friendly questions.
For peacekeeping duties they generally ask friendly Western governments for help in airlifting troops, or charter civilian planes.Despite such handicaps, many are participating in a growing number of African Union and UN peacekeeping missions.
Only C-Span carried news-style interviews from party-appointed "convention jockeys," who posed as journalists last night to ask friendly questions of delegates and supporters, giving the convention the feel of a faux news event -- or a sophisticated infomercial -- that did not carry over to CNN, Fox News Channel or MSNBC.
Nonetheless, Lambert does an admirable job of interviewing people objectively, asking friendly questions and not arguing with those who voted "True".
