amusedly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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The personal and the professional begin to blur as Hae-joon stakes out Seo-rae’s apartment, an invasion of privacy that she amusedly acknowledges and even welcomes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Settling into Knopf’s cluttered Park Avenue offices with the carefree aplomb of a court jester, the black-bearded boss seemed amusedly uninterested in literary power and the genteel backstabbing politics of the publishing world.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2019
“Why, it’s hours yet till dark!” she said, amusedly.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018
In that voice Rutledge amusedly described as “hard to understand,” Bryant said, “You do know who we’re playing.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2016
Ishtar, or her historical doppelgänger, smiled amusedly at me, as if remembering a joke only she understood.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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