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CHEERFULLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a cheerful manner
Example:
he cheerfully agreed to do it
Classified under:
Antonym:
cheerlessly (in an unhappy manner)
Pertainym:
upbeat (pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic)
Context examples:
“So you might describe me,” said Holmes cheerfully.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He spoke cheerfully: the gay tones set my heart at ease.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Hermann von Schmidt," Martin answered cheerfully, "I've a good mind to come over and punch that Dutch nose of yours."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Little Marleen now felt as lighthearted and happy as if her brother were still alive, and she went back to the house and sat down cheerfully to the table and ate.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I cheerfully say “yes” to almost everything—the reason I need to do more all-nighters than I ever did in college.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"Well, you will soon be better now," replied Anne, cheerfully.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
"I don't know enough," replied the Scarecrow cheerfully.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Her excuse for not coming sooner, was, that her husband dying late in the morning, she was a good while consulting her servants about a convenient place where his body should be laid; and I observed, she behaved herself at our house as cheerfully as the rest.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He nodded cheerfully.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Catherine cheerfully complied, and being properly equipped, was more impatient than ever to be at the pump-room, that she might inform herself of General Tilney's lodgings, for though she believed they were in Milsom Street, she was not certain of the house, and Mrs. Allen's wavering convictions only made it more doubtful.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
