happily

Definition

In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.

Etymology

From Middle English happily, happyly, happyliche, happylyche, equivalent to happy + -ly.

Example Sentences

• "This time next month I’ll be happily fishing at the beach."
• "And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for."
• "Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive."

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