happily
Americanadverb
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in a happy manner; with pleasure.
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by good fortune; providentially; luckily.
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felicitously; appropriately; aptly.
a happily turned phrase.
Other Word Forms
- overhappily adverb
Etymology
Origin of happily
Example Sentences
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“I’ll bet when he’s older, though, Thor will love spaghetti and meatballs,” Bat said happily, twirling a messy forkful of noodles.
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Grandmother says she has a jar of honey, and if we find the eggplants, she will happily make the dish for us.
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“It happened on March twenty-fifth in the year 1911 in New York City,” I said, slipping happily back into my role of top student with all the answers.
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Those East Village bubbes were single-mindedly determined to see to it that she and Molly would at last find their basherts, their soulmates, and be happily wed.
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I would happily get my diploma if he would give up the idea of my getting married.
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