Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Favorably; fortunately.
- In a gracious or friendly manner; with kindness or courtesy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly.
- adverb obsolete Fortunately; luckily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
gracious manner; withgrace andcourtesy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a gracious or graceful manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Karin graciously agreed to share how she approaches crafting her suspensenovels.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Karin Slaughter: dealing with writer’s block 2010
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Vic Chesnutt and the Constellation label graciously have given HuffPost Entertainment readers the following FREE download of "Flirted With You all My Life" ... enjoy!
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I asked if he would be willing to do an interview with us and, again graciously, he said he would consider it.
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I don’t care if I am a “burden” to you (you were once to me, that’s how life works); I don’t care how long it takes me to die, and how inconvenient that is to the medical system; and I don’t care how selfless an example other parents are setting in graciously exiting the world for their dependents’ sake before nature intended.
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Einstein graciously took a tour of the campus, dropping in on labs and commenting on students’ work, even though he had been explicitly not invited to give a formal lecture there.
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Einstein graciously took a tour of the campus, dropping in on labs and commenting on students’ work, even though he had been explicitly not invited to give a formal lecture there.
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Most libraries I’ve worked in graciously accept donations, then quietly add most of them to the Friends’ Book Sale pile
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Obama won fair and square and if you are not woman enough to accept defeat graciously, that is your choice.
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To all the Obama supporters out there …. .learn how to win graciously.
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To all the Obama supporters out there ..... learn how to win graciously.
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