Definition of Laughingly

1. Adverb. With laughter; while laughing. "He told the story laughingly"

Definition of Laughingly

1. adv. With laughter or merriment.

Definition of Laughingly

1. Adverb. With laughter or merriment. ¹

2. Adverb. With derision ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Laughingly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laughingly

laughing heir
laughing heir statute
laughing heir statutes
laughing heirs
laughing hyaena
laughing hyena
laughing hyenas
laughing kookaburra
laughing out of court
laughing owl
laughing owls
laughing sickness
laughing stock
laughingly (current term)
laughings
laughingstock
laughingstocks
laughless
laughline
laughlines
laughs
laughs out of court
laughsome
laughster
laughsters
laught
laughter
laughter is the best medicine

Literary usage of Laughingly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Selection of Lessons in Reading & Speaking: Calculated to by Noah Webster (1814)
".Fortune favours the brave, General—none but the brave—(laughingly. (,'ri/it. ... General, noble minds should never despair— ("laughingly. Gen. ..."

2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"Many of these noble-spirited men, upon their re-enlistment, have laughingly said, "The term is too short; the war, we know, can last but a little while; ..."

3. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"... he said laughingly. Such participles generally are equivalent in- meaning to subordinate clauses introduced by conjunctions denoting time, condition, ..."

4. My Long Life: An Autobiographic Sketch by Mary Cowden Clarke (1896)
"... laughingly says I might have taken for the motto of this book the words on the sun-dial in front of our Italian dwelling here, Englished thus: ' I ..."

5. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session by William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens, United States Congress (1866)
"... with tears in their eyes, that they leef degraded at having taken it to save their property, and others laughingly refer to it as 'a mere ..."

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