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LAUGHINGLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With laughter; while laughing
Example:
he told the story laughingly
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Context examples:
Agnes laughingly put back some scattered locks of his grey hair, that he might see us better.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A minute more, and this had roused me from my trance:—Steerforth had left his seat, and gone to her, and had put his arm laughingly about her, and had said, Come, Rosa, for the future we will love each other very much!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I saw her, a most beautiful little creature, with the cloudless blue eyes, that had looked into my childish heart, turned laughingly upon another child of Minnie's who was playing near her; with enough of wilfulness in her bright face to justify what I had heard; with much of the old capricious coyness lurking in it; but with nothing in her pretty looks, I am sure, but what was meant for goodness and for happiness, and what was on a good and happy course.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
