| Library / English Dictionary |
PLAYFULLY
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a playful manner
Example:
she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it out to him playfully
Classified under:
Pertainym:
playful (full of fun and high spirits)
Context examples:
“Especially when one of those two is such a fanciful, troublesome creature!” said Emma playfully.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Then I playfully tried verbal instruction in domestic matters, as we walked about on a Saturday afternoon.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person from whom she had playfully fled.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
For reply he reached over and took my ear in his hand and pulled it playfully, as he used long ago to do at lectures, and said: The good husbandman tell you so then because he knows, but not till then.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He tried to sniff noses with her, but she retreated playfully and coyly.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
In reply she pressed her open fingers against his lips, placed them graciously and playfully, and in expectancy of the kiss that of old had always been a consequence.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She kneeled down playfully by the side of the bed, and laying her chin upon her hands, and laughing, said: What was it they said, Davy? Tell me again. I can't believe it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Father!” said Minnie, playfully.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When I happened to say to that naughty thing, the other day, pursued her mother, shaking her head and her fan at her, playfully, that there was a family circumstance she might mention to you—indeed, I think, was bound to mention—she said, that to mention it was to ask a favour; and that, as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When the Jazz History of the World was over girls were putting their heads on men's shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men's arms, even into groups knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for one link.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
