as in cheerfully
in a cheerful or happy manner
waving cheerily as they drove off
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Recent Examples of cheerily
Another parade newbie, the Mario balloon cheerily made its way down Sixth Avenue.
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Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
Chenoweth cheerily waved over the rest of the cast for a group shot, and a handler produced Donegan’s Miss America sash and tiara.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
But a reporter working on a story like mine would never request or permit an escort—after all, how can someone talk freely about a subject while being observed, however cheerily, by the government?
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
No, no, and no, the young scouts report, cheerily reassuring their potential customers.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheerily
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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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Unable to roll the map out, its creators cheerfully realize that the country itself can serve as its own map.—
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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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“Cheerily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheerily. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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