light-heartedly
- a word derived from light-hearted.
Example Sentences
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Once there was a playful post-argument duel with water guns - Draper's way of light-heartedly diffusing the tension - with his coach in a American hotel corridor.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
Manager Dave Roberts light-heartedly acknowledged that he’s “not betting on him” against the eight-man field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
In late February, a post on r/preppers titled “Will the female preppers please stand up” light-heartedly complained about how equipment necessary for survival was aggressively gendered male.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2022
Maybe I was so light-heartedly ready to pay the price precisely because he had no real power over me.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2019
If he had realized this, he might not have classed it light-heartedly as a “Not-hawk”—that is, anything from a wren to a pheasant—and continued on his way up the slope.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
