lightheartedly love

Definitions

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  • adverb In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.

Etymologies

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lighthearted +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I signed my name lightheartedly and gave him the page.

    Penalty Francis, Dick 1997

  • I watched intently while my girlfriends chatted blithely, easily, lightheartedly about what seemed to me the most inane and innocuous of subjects: “Patty told Donna she saw Carrie with Jeff at the mall.”

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • I watched intently while my girlfriends chatted blithely, easily, lightheartedly about what seemed to me the most inane and innocuous of subjects: “Patty told Donna she saw Carrie with Jeff at the mall.”

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • In an interview earlier this month, TMX Chief Executive Tom Kloet said lightheartedly that he should have signed up more banks as advisers, much as NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse did with their merger agreement this year.

    TMX, LSE Terminate Merger Deal Ben Dummett 2011

  • It's certainly something you don't do lightheartedly.

    WSJ Transcript of RBI Interview Alex Frangos 2012

  • You should be representin' for our peeps, man, tweets Gabriele Marcotti - appealing to my patriotic sensibilities as an Italian as he wades lightheartedly into the Rodgers debate.

    Green Bay Packers 38 New York Giants 35 - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2011

  • In an interview earlier this month, TMX Chief Executive Tom Kloet said lightheartedly that he should have signed up more banks as advisers, much as NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse did with their merger agreement this year.

    TMX, LSE Terminate Merger Deal Ben Dummett 2011

  • Written and directed by straight filmmaker Marcelo Lafitte, the film lightheartedly posits an enduring romance between a transvestite-maybe-transsexual hairdresser and his young bi-sexual lover who gets knocked up so they live together struggling to produce his drag show.

    Brad Balfour: A Very Brazilian Elvis & Madona Appears on The Festival Circuit 2010

  • Sometimes other journalists and I said it lightheartedly, when Iraqi Airways pilots were the only ones willing to take off from Baghdad during thick sandstorms.

    Flying Iraqi Airways, on a wing and (especially) a prayer 2010

  • DEAR AMY: I was upset by a reader's reference to "'vehicular Tourette's" and the fact that you embraced this reference so lightheartedly.

    Ask Amy 2010

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