as in happily
in a cheerful or happy manner
cheerfully announced, "It's a beautiful morning!"
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Recent Examples of cheerfully
With this introduction of a hapless protagonist not entirely managing to live her best life, Brett Haley‘s film cheerfully speaks both the literary and cinematic language of romantic comedy — and won’t seek to subvert or elevate it in the two hours that follow.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Unable to roll the map out, its creators cheerfully realize that the country itself can serve as its own map.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
Fundholz followed him up, protesting vaguely, but Walter Schreiber was already very cheerfully attending to a working-class wife who was asking for potatoes, carrots, and bouillon cubes.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
What an opportune time for the chatbot salesmen to come knocking, cheerfully offering up a neater solution.
—Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
Eng cheerfully sauntered into the exam room but abruptly stopped in her black heels.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Nov. 2025
Iasiello, a licensed real estate broker, exhaustively and cheerfully documents his work buying, rehabilitating and flipping these homes, providing daily video diaries of the work and line item breakdowns of the entire cost — and profit — associated with some of his projects.
—Karen Wang, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
On a good day, the Undervale houses maybe two living human guests and at least a couple dozen haunts of all demographics, time periods and modes of death — including the brother Katherine inherited it all from, the cheerfully feckless Nathan (Will Forte).
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheerfully
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Thankfully, Loki's happily ever after came shortly after the animal shelter posted this video.—
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As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school.—
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The glittering gastro gem shines brightly with resourceful chefs embracing a diverse array of culinary traditions, often eschewing allegiance to strictly Southern cooking.—
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If the guide as a whole doesn’t reflect the full story of the American South, at least two brightly shining stars do.—
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“Cheerfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheerfully. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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