happily
[hap-uh-lee]
- in a happy manner; with pleasure.
- by good fortune; luckily; providentially.
- felicitously; aptly; appropriately: a happily turned phrase.
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Origin of happily
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Examples from the Web for happily
Contemporary Examples
We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.
Happily, the people at Atari dislike lurkers almost as much as I do.
Into the Woods takes on the responsibility of saying, “Stuff happens after happily ever after.”
Anna Kendrick on Feminism, #GamerGate, and the Celebrity Hacking AttackMarlow Stern
November 25, 2014
Musician Chris Picco was on top of the world just a week ago, happily married and with a son on the way.
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November 16, 2014
And there are those who are happily ignorant, and prefer to remain that way.
Historical Examples
This is, happily, a matter of but little practical importance.
The sectional element has happily been eliminated from the tariff discussion.
I know little of them; and happily we shall not be dependent on the result of my management.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
One married, happily or not as the case might be, and took the risk.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
Off they went, and the long chain reached the bottom safely and happily.
Rico and WiseliJohanna Spyri
Word Origin and History for happily
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with happily
happily
see live happily ever after.
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