1
as in cheerfully
in a cheerful or happy manner
happily accepted the invitation to dinner
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as in properly
in a manner suitable for the occasion or purpose
one of those rare occasions on which business and pleasure happily mixed
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Recent Examples of happily
There’s a sense right away in this series that Garfield, a happily married congressman with a generous homestead in rural Ohio, would have been happy to be forgotten.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
In We Were Liars and Family of Liars, there are romantic storylines that don’t end happily.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
While Mann was cooking and cracking eggs, Oliver asked about his technique and Mann happily offered to show him.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, the couple is happily engaged in real life.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
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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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This timing is meant to ensure the pill absorbs properly, McCoy explained.—
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Keep in mind that firm menstrual cups are more likely to open properly after being inserted.—
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Smith said that Galatolo had misreported the purchase price of one of the vehicles, but that the other was correctly reported and that the seller testified to that fact.—
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But, done correctly, dead lifts produce tougher, more resilient backs and bodies.—
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The suppliers are then supposed to apply the new user’s age to adjust content appropriately.—
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That said, there's also still a magnetic goggles-friendly version appropriately called the Stratus Magnetic.—
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“Happily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/happily. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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