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  • adverb In a welcoming manner.

Etymologies

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welcoming +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Usually they part welcomingly as you approach them, but not on this occasion.

    The Book Club « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • It's a tight composition that opens up, just as many retail operations in the area do, more welcomingly to the parking lot in the rear.

    Town Hall Assembly Julie V. Iovine 2011

  • In spite of my early fear that I would be offering weapons welcomingly to any passing serial killer, I am now a firm advocate of the knife magnet: no one really can put knives into their sheathes after each use, and a load of sharp blades in a drawer cannot be a good idea.

    Nigella Lawson's Cozy Kitchen 2011

  • Is it the grandparent on a pittance of welfare who welcomingly takes in his pregnant granddaughter after her family disowns her?

    Strong Women Characters thelauderdale 2010

  • The dense undergrowth would split open welcomingly offering easy paths that wound pointlessly off her course.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • One of the side gates had been left welcomingly ajar, and a lantern perched atop the stone ledge, next to it shed a yellow glow on the path.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Jonathan Gabbai concurred welcomingly that widgets do lend themselves to affiliate marketing.

    May « 2007 « Innovation Cloud 2007

  • Jonathan Gabbai concurred welcomingly that widgets do lend themselves to affiliate marketing.

    Widget Week part 2 – Chinwag Live: Media Widgetised « Innovation Cloud 2007

  • As a further point there would be a welcomingly neat gender balance to having Betty Boothroyd then Michael Martin and then another lady following on.

    Speaker - It's got to be Widdecombe Jeff 2009

  • You are bringing back memories long supressed and welcomingly forgotten.

    Guess What? Hell is a Place On Earth, Too. kittenpie 2007

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