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Meanings of gaily in English
Synonyms
Examples for "cheerfully"
Examples for "cheerfully"
1
I know several of his colleagues who would cheerfully accept the task.
2
You must come up and talk to me,' ordered Sir Julian cheerfully.
3
In August, the private detective industry reported, cheerfully, an uptick in business.
4
Meet me in front of my house in ten, she said cheerfully.
5
But he was looking forward to levelling the score, he'd said cheerfully.
1
The drums in the finishing-shop hummed merrily their lively song of labor.
2
Some were smoking; some chatting merrily together; some sitting in dreamy languor.
3
The young man laughed merrily, as if this were a strange question.
4
The peas danced merrily against the sides of an old-fashioned china bowl.
5
Forward in the engine room the gas motors were soon moving merrily.
1
We all heard her laughing gayly among the ladies in the hall.
2
The vessel was coming gayly up the river flying the new flag.
3
She waved her cigarette and cried gayly in her hearty resonant voice:
4
Kneeling gayly down, we piled the wood in the deep, wide chimney.
5
And they fell in gayly with her whimsy and called her T.O.
Usage of gaily in English
1
The girls stood up in the grandstand and waved their banners gaily.
2
At his command the British ensign soon fluttered gaily in the breeze.
3
Out in the street the sun shone gaily down on peaceful Battersea.
4
She jumped up gaily with the question still throbbing in her throat.
5
You let your ward go about gaily and stylishly; I am content.
6
Not ignoring the shadow of the future, we gaily celebrated the past.
7
The secrecy of the undertaking heightened its charm and they marched gaily.
8
Along it for five miles we gaily canoed before stopping for luncheon.
9
Swiftly and gaily did the slim bark cleave through the glassy sea.
10
And Doe tossed his pencil gaily into the air and caught it.
11
I'm in my Ruby Keeler phase, the young man told Ignatius gaily.
12
He took his hands in his usual uncouth way, and asked gaily:
13
In small groups they chattered gaily, laughing and glancing here and there.
14
They walked along dusty country roads passing donkeys pulling gaily painted carts.
15
She looked towards the sky, and then at the gaily-lighted house opposite.
16
Excusing myself, I took her in charge and we moved gaily off.
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Gaily through the time
Gaily across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare