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SWEETLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an affectionate or loving manner ('sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of 'sweetly')
Example:
talking sweet to each other
Synonyms:
sweet; sweetly
Classified under:
Domain category:
poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Pertainym:
sweet (having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub)
Context examples:
They wore round hats that rose to a small point a foot above their heads, with little bells around the brims that tinkled sweetly as they moved.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Coming through the clear, sunny atmosphere among the green tree-tops, I thought it had sounded airily and sweetly; and the effect on my companions was the stranger.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Nay, she smiled sweetly upon him and thanked him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing; you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He spoke to me before he went out, never more sweetly or tenderly, but he never mentioned a word of what had happened in the visit to the Count's house.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was sweetly reproachful, wondering what had kept him away for so dreadful a length of time.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There was lay-sister Agatha with the high gold crucifix, and the three incense-bearers, and the two-and-twenty garbed in white, who cast flowers upon either side of them and sang sweetly the while.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When the Scarecrow had bowed, as prettily as his straw stuffing would let him, before this beautiful creature, she looked upon him sweetly, and said: I am Oz, the Great and Terrible.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
She was positively bewitching, and, withal, sweetly spirituelle, if not saintly.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Tumbling about in one part of the desk among bills, passports, and business documents of various kinds were several of Jo's letters, and in another compartment were three notes from Amy, carefully tied up with one of her blue ribbons and sweetly suggestive of the little dead roses put away inside.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
