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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
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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