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Definition of Humorously
1. Adverb. In a humorous manner. "Dickens had humorously suggested a special service of intercession at St. Paul's Cathedral"
Definition of Humorously
1. adv. Capriciously; whimsically.
Definition of Humorously
1. Adverb. In a humorous manner; jocularly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Humorously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humorously
Literary usage of Humorously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
"... Mrs. Fisher humorously added that the only reason the great American novel
had not yet been written was that as yet no American authors had been great ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... of a Joint Stock Company" are humorously exaggerated sketches of traits
popularly supposed by the English to be characteristically American. ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"popularity of their wares and the consequent extent of their business, subsequently
caught up and applied humorously, as in the extract,— A horse-jockey in ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1809)
"They waited upon him in a body to congratulate his majesty upon what they humorously
termed, his accession to the throne of his ancestors, and were very ..."
5. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"If there was, as Mr. Godkin humorously objected in his maturity, something too
much of "rhetoric" in his first writings, they had, at any rate, a fine glow. ..."
6. Ruskin: A Study in Personality by Arthur Christopher Benson (1911)
"He wrote humorously in 1875: I begin to ask myself, with somewhat pressing
arithmetic, how much time is likely to be left me, at the age of fifty-six, ..."
7. The Spanish Story of the Armada, and Other Essays by James Anthony Froude (1899)
"Teresa replied for herself and the sisters, touching humorously the weaknesses
of each of her own party : " Sister Anne of Burgos says that if any knight ..."
8. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry; Famous Characters by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"When the newly knighted Bastard in King John (Act i, Sc. 2) is called by his
mother a " most untoward knave" he humorously reproves her Knight, knight, ..."
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