happily
IPA: hˈæpʌɫi
adverb
- In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
- By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
- With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
- (archaic) By chance; perhaps.
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Examples of "happily" in Sentences
- Thus, he lived happily after.
- He happily accepts the proposal.
- The Don happily accepts the proposal.
- The connubial couple lived happily ever after.
- The connubial couple is living happily together.
- Hans happily exchanges the goose for the grindstone.
- May they live happily together in eternal blandness.
- The friends happily run around, and splash in the rivers.
- At the end of the day, all the couples are happily together.
- I'd still tune in happily if something new was about to happen.
- His face shone transfigured and happily smiling out of the dimness.
- Though they depict pretty grim events, they usually resolve in "happily ever after."
- So reading about that experience and knowing that it ends happily is a consistent element of storytelling.
- There might be a blog post along these lines, if I can find the time (the novel, happily, is occupying a lot of my time right now).
- Kaylin happily inherited these, having been taught to knit by the ballerina, and she turned out an endless supply of garter-stitched scarves.
- No matter how many times you click your little heels together and make a wish, you may not wake up Friday morning after watching Bravo's "Real Housewives of DC" finale and discover it was all a bad Technicolor dream that, happily, is over.
- No matter how many times you click your little heels together and make a wish, you might not awaken Friday morning after watching Bravo's "Real Housewives of D.C." finale only to discover it was all a bad technicolor dream that, happily, is over.
- Also (and this is totally my own take on things, unproven by any kind of study or research), but I think that kids whose parents are divorced, separated, single, or otherwise un-Cleaver-ish might have a slight edge over those who grew up in happily-married homes.