chuckle
verb (used without object)
to laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction.
chucklingly
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a word derived from
chuckle.
Example Sentences
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Later, after resolving the episode by delivering a sermon, he leads the faithful in a gospel number tweaked to chucklingly comment on thine old wacky antics.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2012
Observing that he had voted for the Lausche amendment the day before, Dirksen said chucklingly: "This is not the first time I have been confronted with an awkward situation."
From Time Magazine Archive
Not a single one of the words he chucklingly puts into the lips of Jockey and Sawney as characteristically Scoto-Arcadian, was ever heard or seen by the breechless swains of that pastoral realm.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
He scurried off with it, chucklingly, like a barnyard hen with a corncob, to peck at it in solitude.
From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various
"Oh, yes, it is!" a voice retorted chucklingly.
From Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower
