cheerily

English

Etymology

From cheery +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

cheerily (comparative more cheerily, superlative most cheerily)

1. In a cheerful manner; with a cheery demeanour.

   Synonyms: cheerfully, (archaic) cheerly; see also Thesaurus:happily

   Having already dismissed the story as a heap of piffle, he cheerily advised the reporters to go for a run.

   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 50:

     Matters stood thus in the Castle of Avenel, when a winded bugle sent its shrill and prolonged notes from the shore of the lake, and was replied to cheerily by the signal of the warder.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 129:

     What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; […]