Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a laughing or merry way; with laughter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With laughter or merriment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With laughter or merriment.
- adverb With
derision
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with laughter; while laughing
Etymologies
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Examples
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"By-by, Bobby," she called laughingly to her partner.
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In his own case, the correctness of his first impressions -- what he himself called laughingly his _ "coup d'oeil" _ -- is in a measure proved by a note-book, now lying before the writers, in which he recorded his views of Bastia and the Corsicans after a very brief acquaintance -- that view requiring scarcely any modification when first impressions had been exchanged for real knowledge and experience.
The Slave of the Lamp Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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Trimpin laughingly shows filmmakers his collection of rejection notes for grant proposals that have ended up in a huge file of "fuck you letters."
George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010
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Trimpin laughingly shows filmmakers his collection of rejection notes for grant proposals that have ended up in a huge file of "fuck you letters."
George Heymont: There's Art Right at Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010
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Trimpin laughingly shows filmmakers his collection of rejection notes for grant proposals that have ended up in a huge file of "fuck you letters."
George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010
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I’d post a photo of the I use the word laughingly scarf I finished yesterday, but one of the cats is sleeping on it.
2008 September 23 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008
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I’d post a photo of the I use the word laughingly scarf I finished yesterday, but one of the cats is sleeping on it.
David Attenborough Presents… « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008
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Not only was my attempt at writing a note on the door tag laughingly futile, the shipping guy's yellow note taped next to the airbill telling the driver to "please drop off box at apartment office if no one is home" was ridiculously unnecessary since ALL OF THIS could've been avoided if he'd just checked the NO SIGNATURE REQUIRED box.
haloaskew Diary Entry haloaskew 2006
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Thirty minutes after the Limited rolled out of the terminal Detectives Johnson and Goldberg, attired as North Country backwoodsmen and lugging battered suitcases, swaggered behind Lizbet into the smoking car of a sooty, suffocating all-coach local-express entitled laughingly in the timetables The Snowball.
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Thirty minutes after the Limited rolled out of the terminal Detectives Johnson and Goldberg, attired as North Country backwoodsmen and lugging battered suitcases, swaggered behind Lizbet into the smoking car of a sooty, suffocating all-coach local-express entitled laughingly in the timetables The Snowball.
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